Nicola Tallent
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19,827 appearances
164 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4d ago
Nicola Tallent’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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By early 2005, armed robberies and gangland murders were escalating at a runaway pace, and not only in Dublin.
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The Gardaí were under severe pressure, and although doing what they could with the resources they had, things seemed to be getting worse, never better.
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Even when drug shipments were busted, the top people rarely got caught, and especially not Marlow Highland.
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The 80s had the General, the 90s had John Gilligan, and in the noughties, it was the reign of Martin Marlow Hyland.
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He ruled over the drug scene, working his way up the ranks, taking the opportunity to step in when others fell by the wayside.
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He grew increasingly reckless and paranoid and therefore became a liability.
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He had to go.
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And the circumstances of his death just added to his legacy.
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That an innocent young man doing an honest day's work lost his life is just terrible.
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You're listening to Caught in the Crossfire, Episode 3, Operation Oak, The Beginning of Marlowe's End.
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After every interception, there were follow-up searches in one of the many houses he owned in West Dublin.
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Guards would often find him casually sitting at a kitchen table with some of his men, just having a chat.
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He never had anything to fear, because if Marlow was there, you were guaranteed the house was clean.
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He never took chances by handling his guns or his drugs.
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He paid his men well to do his dirty work for him.
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The Gardaí and the government were becoming increasingly desperate and determined to bring him down.
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A cohesive plan involving all the different branches of the Gardaí, which is never an easy task, was needed.
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Something well funded with the full weight of the law behind it.
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Marlow Hyland was really good at being a criminal, wasn't he?
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Like he approached it like a business.
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