Crime World

Episode 247: The real-life stories behind Ireland's 'Narco' boom

25 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

DUBLIN was a city of grinding poverty, mass unemployment and a never-ending queue of young people seeking a future abroad when the heroin epidemic hit...

Episode 246: Conor McGregor and the childhood friendships with Irish gangland figures

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

He was the shadowy Cartel lieutenant who was rumoured to be out to get UFC star Conor McGregor after a pub brawl at the height of the Kinahan and Hutc...

Episode 245: The life and brutal crimes of gang boss Cornelius Price

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

HE was a terrifying gangland mob boss who ran his empire from a gated compound in County Meath, where he is alleged to have held slaves and forced the...

Episode 244: How British mobster Robert Dawes became a pied piper for a generation of Dubai-based criminals

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

BRITISH drug baron Robert Dawes became known as the pathfinder for a generation of criminals, including the Kinahan Cartel, when he was one of the fir...

Episode 243: The return of the Dundons and the secret property portfolio of Kinahan mobster Ross Browning

18 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

RAIDS on the homes of notorious crime brothers, the discovery of a cocaine mixing factory and the seizure of a home and equestrian facility owned by a...

Episode 242: The downfall of 'Otoniel' the world's biggest cocaine dealer

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

He's the Colombian narco who rose from humble origins to become the biggest wholesaler of cocaine in the world. Dairo Antonio Usuga, better known by h...

Episode 241: When victims of crime come face to face with their offenders

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

VICTIMS of crime can often feel forgotten in the process of justice, but what benefits are there to bring them together with an offender?Nicola Tallan...

Episode 240: Gilbert King on the shocking murder of Michelle Scholfield and the new evidence which puts a convicted murderer at the scene of the crime

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Gilbert King was asked by a Judge to look into a case of wrongful conviction he was shocked by the request and intrigued by the story.Michelle Sc...

Episode 239: How the cocaine boom means crime gangs now pose as big a threat in the EU as terrorism

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Organised crime is now posing as big a threat to countries in the EU as terrorism a commissioner warned this week.And as criminals including Irish God...

Episode 238: How George 'the Penguin' Mitchell's encrypted phone network was smashed by European cops

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

He is Ireland’s most wily Godfather of Crime - a criminal so slippery he has managed to evade the law for decades while rising to the very top of Eu...

Episode 237: Kinahan cartel money man Brian Mahony's rise and fall at the hands of Criminal Assets Bureau

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

He’s the Kinahan fixer who decked out his house with Plasma screens and bullet-resistant glass, but now Brian Mahony has gone and the keys of his pa...

Episode 236: Canada's cult-like leader who is brain-washing her followers to believe she is taking over the world

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

She is the self-declared Queen of Canada whose followers drive in giant motor homes through towns and sleepy villages spreading her word.Filipina Roma...

Epiosde 235: Death on the tracks - the mystery of the Irish teen chased to his death on a railway line

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

THE death of a 14-year-old boy in the Northern Ireland seaside town of Portrush has long been a mystery, and has posed a myriad of painful questions f...

Episode 234: The Irish mob who became Canada's cocaine kings

04 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

THEY are the crime gang who took control of Canada's lucrative cocaine trade while proudly displaying their Irish roots.The West End mob began their l...

Episode 233: Robbie Lawlor and the cross-Border vigilante murder mob

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

THE murder of Robbie Lawlor in a Belfast housing estate continues to be the subject of a major police inquiry, with the PSNI and prosecutors insisting...

Episode 232: Keane Mulready-Woods and the men who helped facilitate his grisly murder

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Crosby and Gerard Cruise had to listen to the tragic victim impact statement of Elizabeth Mulready, mum of murdered teen Keane Mulready-Woods, as...

Episode 232: Keane Mulready-Woods and the men who helped facilitate his gruesome murder

28 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Crosby and Gerard Cruise had to listen to the tragic victim impact statement of Elizabeth Mulready, mum of murdered teen Keane Mulready-Woods, as...

Episode 231: 'The day I witnessed the Regency Hotel murder and the gunman in drag'

28 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

SEVEN years ago this week journalist Alan Sherry was sent on a news assignment like no other - and on an otherwise ordinary Friday, he found himself i...

Episode 230: April D-Day for Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch in Regency murder trial

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

AFTER 54 days at the Special Criminal Court the Regency murder trial came to an end with a verdict promised by April 17.Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch will re...

Episode 229: Innocent or guilty? The dramatic closing arguments in the Gerry Hutch murder trial

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

THE case for and against Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch closed today with the prosecution and defence addressing the court for a final time.The State have con...

Episode 228: The final days of the Gerry Hutch murder trial

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

LAWYERS at the Regency trial will enter the final stretch tomorrow when the closing speeches to the three-judge panel at the Special Criminal Court ge...

Episode 227: The dramatic capture of mafia 'boss of bosses' Matteo Messina Denaro

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

HE was the notorious Cosa Nostra boss who lived in hiding for 30 years and who was responsible for terrorist atrocities against Italy. Matteo Messina ...

Episode 226: Marcus Sweeney - The celtic tiger playboy who became a target for the Criminal Assets Bureau

21 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

CELTIC tiger businessman Marcus Sweeney once appeared to be the man who had everything - successful investment interests, a fast car and Ireland's mos...

Episode 225: The life and crimes of perma-tanned mobster Mickey Green (Part 3)

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

HE was an A-list star of the criminal underworld, a gangster so wily that he travelled the world amassing a £100million fortune and died not from a b...

Episode 224: The shocking murder of mum-to-be Natalie McNally

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A SHOCKING murder in Lurgan, Co Armagh leaves a pregnant woman dead, a family devastated and a community in fear of a killer on the loose.So, what hap...

Episode 223: The life and crimes of perma-tanned mobster Mickey Green (Part 2)

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

HE was an A-list star of the criminal underworld, a gangster so wily that he travelled the world amassing a £100million fortune and died not from a b...

Episode 222: The life and crimes of perma-tanned mobster Mickey Green (Part 1)

14 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

HE was an A-list star of the criminal underworld, a gangster so wily that he travelled the world amassing a £100million fortune and died not from a b...

Episode 221: The second coming of gangland boss Brian 'King Ratt' Rattigan

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

BRIAN Rattigan has re-emerged as a significant crime figure following his release from Portlaoise Prison last year.The 42-year-old who led one side of...

Episode 220: Jailhouse shock as inmate 'confesses' to being the shooter in Regency Hotel murder

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A JAILHOUSE confession by an inmate claiming that he was the Regency shooter - not Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch - was described as a ‘curious developm...

Episode 219: The advances in DNA technology helping to solve the world's most-puzzling cold cases

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

ONE was a high-flying 22-year-old career girl whose father was a multi-millionaire, the other a recently-divorced mother of four who was a popular soc...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD 2022: The rise of 'The Gypsy King' Tyson Fury and his ties to Daniel Kinahan

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

He's the world heavyweight boxing champ who has just been refused entry to the US as a result of sanctions levelled against the Kinahan Organised Crim...

Episode 218: The final stages of the Regency murder trial and what does 2023 have in store for the Kinahans?

07 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

THE trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch will resume this week after a lengthy Christmas break - before the three judges at the Special Criminal Court reti...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD 2022: 'Predator' - Larry Murphy and Ireland's missing women (Part 3)

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle.But where is Larry...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD 2022: 'Predator' - Larry Murphy and Ireland's missing women (Part 2)

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle.But where is Larry...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD 2022: 'Predator' - Larry Murphy and Ireland's missing women (Part 1)

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle.But where is Larry...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD 2022: 'Mr Flashy' and Dublin's dirty gang war

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When drug dealer James Whelan was gunned down in Finglas, north Dublin, two months ago gardai braced themselves for an explosion of violence and tit-f...

Episode 217: The MI6 spy and the 'man in the bag' mystery

31 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

His was a bizarre and macabre death which led to more questions than answers.Since the body of British spy Gareth Williams was found padlocked inside ...

Episode 216: The amateur super sleuths solving real-life crimes

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

WHO says you can’t solve crime in your spare time? Elderly armchair detectives with a penchant for puzzles are the inspiration for Richard Osman’s...

Episode 215: The hunt for 'The Silver Killer' - the UK's mysterious serial murderer

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

CHESHIRE, England 1996, Howard Ainsworth violently bludgeoned his wife to death with a hammer before taking his own life. Three years later in the sam...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD 2022: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 3)

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first targe...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD 2022: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 2)

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first targe...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD 2022: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 1)

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first targe...

Episode 214: Jonathan Dowdall: I didn't suggest getting IRA to carry out hits on Kinahan mob (Day 7)

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

DAY seven of the cross examination of Jonathan Dowdall came to its conclusion, as it was put to him that he had a role in a botched gun attack on the ...

Episode 213: Jonathan Dowdall denies planning 'mass murder' and 'planting bombs' (Day 6)

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Dowdall’s evidence to the Special Criminal Court is now centred on his own 10-hours of bugged conversation in a car with Gerry Hutch.Dowdal...

Episode 212: Why the takedown of 'Bomber' Kavanagh marked a major milestone in the war on crime

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE takedown of Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh can be directly linked to a decrease in the gangland murder rate in Ireland, the country's most-senior office...

Episode 211: The two faces of State witness Jonathan Dowdall (Day 5)

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE Special Criminal Court watched two faces of State witness Jonathan Dowdall during his fifth day under cross examination, as tapes of his arrest we...

Episode 210: Jonathan Dowdall: I lied to gardai to save my family (Day 4)

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Dowdall watched from the witness box at the Special Criminal Court at videos of his arrest from 2016 on firearms offences, where he told gard...

Episode 209: 'Tall tales and bravado' as Jonathan Dowdall claims he tried to impress 'The Monk' (Day 3)

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Dowdall said he wanted to make stories more "beefy" for Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch and was only trying to impress him with tales of bomb making, ...

Episode 208: 'Patsy's sons started Hutch-Kinahan feud', Jonathan Dowdall tells Regency trial (Day 2)

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Dowdall told the Special Criminal Court that Patsy Hutch’s sons, Gary and Patrick Junior, started the Kinahan-Hutch feud when they attempte...

Episode 207: The extraordinary testimony of Jonathan Dowdall in the Regency murder trial (Day 1)

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Dowdall finally stepped into the witness box on day 30 of the Regency Hotel trial, where Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch stands accused of murdering D...

Episode 206: D-Day for Dowdall in the Regency Hotel murder trial

10 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

STATE Witness Jonathan Dowdall will appear in the Special Criminal Court on Monday, but before he gives evidence a senior Garda officer from the Crime...

Episode 205: Jonathan Dowdall and the witness protection programme - what's the deal?

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

FORMER Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall has agreed to give evidence against Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch at the Special Criminal Court - but a Judge ha...

Episode 204: The battle to hear the testimony of Jonathan Dowdall in the Regency Hotel murder trial

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

STATE witness Jonathan Dowdall could be delayed in giving his evidence at the Regency Hotel murder trial as defence lawyers continue to argue his perm...

Episode 203: Three gangland shootings in one night on Ireland's streets of fear

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THREE gangland shootings in one night. One dead drug dealer, a hitman on the run and a feuding mob baying for revenge.Nicola Tallant talks with Irish ...

Episode 202: The jailing of Robert 'Roo' Redmond and Bernard Fogarty - Ireland's most-feared assassins

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE conviction of gangland hit-men Robert ‘Roo’ Redmond and his sidekick Bernard Fogarty marks the end of the short and dangerous careers of Dubli...

Episode 201: Crime World Live - The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club final verdict

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Crime World 'boss' Nicola Tallant hosts this special, live edition of The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club from a packed Sugar Club in Dublin.Over the past f...

Episode 200: The suspected three-man hit team behind the murder of mobster Robbie Lawlor

03 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A three-man assassination squad scouted out Irish crime boss Robbie Lawlor’s movements before carrying out his contract killing, a Belfast court has...

Episode 199: The bugging dilemma - Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch's murder trial at a crossroads

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE judges at the Special Criminal Court are set to rule on the admissibility of evidence relating to 10 hours of conversation between murder accused ...

Episode 198: The dramatic Dubai arrest of Balkan mob boss and Kinahan ally Edin Gacanin

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE arrest of a Balkan mob boss in a massive Europol co-ordinated operation against the so called 'Super Cartel' leaves just one man standing from the...

Episode 197: Court sketch artist reveals the secrets behind the mask of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

FOR Gerry Hutch the stakes couldn't be higher at the Special Criminal Court, where he stands accused of murder - a crime that goes with a mandatory li...

Episode 196: 'The Disappeared' of Northern Ireland's Troubles

26 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It was an unforgiveable crime - to murder someone and refuse to give up their body. And it became the ultimate terror threat of the IRA: “We will d...

Episode 195: The Hutch tapes - the paramilitaries and the Kinahan peace summit

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The final hour of bugged conversations between Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch and Jonathan Dowdall were played to the Special Criminal Court as the prosec...

Episode 194: The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - Goodfellas and The Usual Suspects

24 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

WELCOME to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite mobster movies with special guests.Each wee...

Episode 193: The Hutch tapes - 'Monk' on a mission to stop a tide of murder

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

GERRY 'The Monk' Hutch hated what organised crime had become by the time, the State say, he was headed North in a jeep with Jonathan Dowdall to facili...

Episode 192: The extraordinary surveillance tape of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch and State witness Jonathan Dowdall

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

CONVERSATIONS between Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch and State Witness Jonathan Dowdall were played to the Special Criminal Court today in extraordinary evide...

Episode 191: Jeffrey Mitchell - heroin kingpin to tragic homeless addict

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

NOTORIOUS mobster Jeffrey Mitchell was found dead in a Dublin hostel after a suspected heroin overdose.The 49-year-old from Crumlin was the most proli...

Episode 190: The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - Donnie Brasco and Scarface

19 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

WELCOME to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite mobster movies with special guests.Each wee...

Episode 189: Why did secretive Garda unit destroy data relating to the tracking of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch?

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A SENIOR officer from the Garda National Surveillance Unit ordered the destruction of records from a tracker device used on a jeep which, the State cl...

Episode 188: 'Dapper Don' Christy Kinahan's complex love life and his plans to escape and set up in Zimbabwe

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

'Dapper Don' Christy Kinahan was planning an African escape with his partner Nessy Yildirim to Harare in Zimbabwe where he hoped to settle with his fa...

Episode 187: The north inner city neighbourhood which the State say was used by the Regency Hit team

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the north inner city neighbourhood which the State say was used by the Regency Hit team to gather before they headed to the north Dublin hotel....

Episode 186: The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - Casino and The City of God

12 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite gangster films with special guests.Each wee...

Episode 185: Why Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch is continuing to fight for his reputation in the court of public opinion

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gerry The Monk Hutch has vigorously defended his 'innocence and reputation' at the Special Criminal Court where he is on trial for the murder of David...

The life and crimes of Kinahan hitman Imre Arakas (Repost)

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A survivor of the Cold War and of the notorious Russian Gulags, Imre Arakas was an international hitman who washed up on our shores like a character d...

Episode 184: The extradition of Imre Arakas and his doomed trip to Dublin to kill James 'Mago' Gately

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

He looks a far cry from the international legend first arrested in Ireland in April 2017 on a trip to murder Kinahan cartel target James ‘Mago’ Ga...

Episode 183: The evidence about the threats issued by the Kinahan Cartel in the wake of Regency Hotel shooting

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The fear that surrounded the aftermath of the Regency Hotel attack for those who had been linked to the murder of David Byrne has been laid bare at th...

Episode 182: The latest from the murder trial of Detective Garda Colm Horkan

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE trial of Stephen Silver for the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan is continuing at the Central Criminal Court where the motorbike mechanic has...

Episode 181: How Dubai became the new Costa del Crime for the world's gangsters

05 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a place of refuge for countless mega-rich European drug traffickers who have beaten a golden path to the luxury Gulf state of Dubai over t...

Episode 180: The murder trial of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch – Suspects under surveillance

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the murder of Kinahan Cartel lieutenant David Byrne has focused on events that took place in the weeks followi...

Episode 179: The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - The Godfather I & II

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

WELCOME to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite mobster movies with special guests.Each wee...

Episode 178: The story of Darkey Kelly - Witch, devil worshipper or Ireland's first female serial killer?

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Witch, devil worshipper and Ireland’s first serial killer are just some of the titles that have been bestowed on Darkey Kelly over the years. Born i...

Episode 177: The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - Pulp Fiction and The Departed

29 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

WELCOME to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite mobster movies with special guests.Each wee...

Episode 176: The murder trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch - the undercover sting to recover the Regency weapons

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Twenty-seven members of the Garda’s National Surveillance Unit had an operation in place on the day the State say Shane Rowan drove to Dublin to col...

Episode 175: The murder trial of Detective Garda Colm Horkan

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A trial at the Central Criminal Court has been hearing evidence of events surrounding the death of a Detective Garda who was shot dead with his own we...

Episode 174: How the Troubles hid a history of collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and security forces

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Suggestions of collusion between security forces and loyalist paramilitaries has long been denied when it comes to Northern Ireland’s Troubles, but ...

Episode 173: The murder trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch - The 'kill team' caught on camera

22 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A few seconds of CCTV footage showing six men running towards what the State says was a getaway car sparked gasps from the gallery at the Special Crim...

Episode 172: The murder trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch - the movements of the gangland hit team

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the murder of David Byrne has seen footage of Regency Hotel gunman Kevin 'Flat Cap' Murray enjoying a relaxed ...

Episode 171: George 'The Penguin' Mitchell, the underworld bagman and the mystery godfather of crime

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Underworld banker Patrick Lawlor is beginning a jail term after a court heard he was caught with drug money belonging to a 'trans-global organisation'...

Episode 170: The dramatic opening to the murder trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

GERRY 'The Monk' Hutch defiantly pleaded not guilty today as he stood accused of the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in February 2016 - the...

Episode 169: The sentencing of Jonathan Dowdall for his role in the Regency Hotel murder

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Dowdall and his father Patrick were given two weeks to prepare for custodial sentences yesterday after a court heard they were to be handed o...

Episode 168: The undercover customs officer who infiltrated the world's most-feared drug cartels

15 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The life of an undercover operative embedded deep in the world of drugs gangs and money launderers is far from ordinary. And it's rare we get an insig...

Episode 167: The secrets behind Ireland’s witness protection programme

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE secretive Witness Protection Programme has been thrust into the spotlight with the decision of Jonathan Dowdall to turn State witness against his...

Episode 166: Just what evidence will Jonathan Dowdall reveal in the trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch?

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The trial of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch looks set to go ahead next week despite new witness statements and the dramatic turn around of his former co- ...

Episode 165: The daylight murder of Belfast drug lord Sean Fox

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It took two gunmen just 21 seconds to murder drug dealer Sean Fox in a packed Belfast bar in an assassination which was meticulously planned, calm and...

Episode 164: The Spanish trial of veteran mobster John Gilligan

08 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

IRISH gangster John Gilligan managed a smile for the cameras this week after appearing in a Spanish Court on drug charges.The trial of the 70-year-old...

Episode 163: The Liverpool gang wars and the killing of tragic 9-year-old school girl Olivia Pratt-Korbel

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The killing of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool on August 22 has left Merseyside's underworld reeling from a major crackdown on organise...

Episode 162: The jailing of ex-garda John 'Spud' Murphy and his suspected links to the Hutch gang

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A former Garda Superintendent has been jailed for six-and-a-half years after he was caught with more than €250,000 worth of cannabis.But the investi...

Episode 161: The dramatic new evidence that halted the murder trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel has been put back for a few weeks after dramatic developments i...

Episode 160: The day I came face to face with a killer

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Trainee journalists often have to find their feet in a dog-eat-dog world, where you are only as good as your last byline.And many of those who have be...

Episode 159: The arrest of Gerard Mackin and the secret Kinahan Cartel ledgers

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Kinahan organisation has been financially pulverised after a raid on properties connected to money launderer Johnny Morrissey uncovered what polic...

Episode 158: The arrest of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch inside Wheatfield Prison

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A wider investigation into how the State believe Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch directed a criminal gang and corrupted a retired police officer is on-goin...