Nicola Tallent

In one go.

In one go, which was skill.

Skill, yes.

It's not quite true, but I did win, actually.

You did win.

Anyone watching can see the absolute smugness of my grin.

Those of you listening, we're just going to have to imagine it, but it is so smug.

I'm actually not a bad pool player, she says, hoping nobody will challenge it.

Now,

Tell me about one of my favorite ladies of the underworld.

Pretty much a cold case murder now, because there was one arrest in connection with that murder, which happened around the time that there was a lot of dispute in the area.

Of course, the house being in Saggart in County Dublin, and there was a lot of dispute at the time.

Andy Connors would have been the banker to gangland as well as other things.

And he often loaned money or invested money for people.

And there was a lot of dispute over money he said he had invested, which he was owed back, which he was being told he wasn't.

It was at the time that the Mansfield empire had gone under and that there was a lot of activity

A lot of kind of underworld figures and gangland figures were kind of swirling the remains of the Mansfield Empire, claiming that they had invested money and wanted it back.

Of course, the late Jim Mansfield Senior had indeed profited from both clean and dirty money.

And when his entire wealth went into essentially a debt situation,

after the crash he had difficulty sorting one from the other because a lot of the investors that had bought properties up around the area had bought them with dirty money and sometimes their names hadn't been put on the property but they all had gone into the kind of the slush fund of the the financial ruin of his empire.