Crime World

Episode 272: D-Day in Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch's murder trial

15 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

GERRY ‘The Monk’ Hutch will learn his fate on Monday when three judges from the Special Criminal Court return with a verdict after his lengthy mur...

Episode 271: What do Kerry locals think about the tragic case of Baby John?

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

IT'S a sensitive and tragic cold-case murder that has become part of the fabric of south Kerry. When five-day-old 'Baby John' washed up on a Kerry bea...

Episode 270: Super-cartel kingpin Ridouan Taghi and the final days of 'The Marengo trial'

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

THE Marengo case against super-cartel kingpin Ridouan Taghi is drawing to a close in the Netherlands, where state prosecutors are seeking a life sente...

Episode 269: One year on from the Kinahan's US sanctions - where are they now?

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One year since the Kinahan Organised Crime Group were sanctioned by the US treasury, the bad news has continued for it’s exiled leaders in Dubai.Nic...

Episode 268: The Good Friday Agreement and Northern Ireland's current terror threat

08 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

IT'S the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement when a monumental task was achieved, and political divides agreed to peace in Northern Ireland.So wh...

Episode 267: Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo', his legacy and the Sinaloa cartel

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

He is locked up in a Colorado jail with some of the world’s most notorious prisoners, but the legacy of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman lives on in a never ...

Episode 266: The FBI's secret files on Frank Sinatra and his ties to the Mafia

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Frank Sinatra or Ol' Blue Eyes as he was known was one of the most popular entertainers in the 1940s and 50s. A singer, an actor and a member of the f...

Episode 265: Probation and Parole - How criminals are managed in the community after being released from prison

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

He has dedicated his life to working with those in crisis and Vivian Geiran, the former Director of the Probation and Parole service of Ireland, has h...

Episode 264: The sentencing of serial sex offender and former promising jockey Maurice Fitzgerald

01 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

SERIAL sex offender Maurice Fitzgerald was jailed this week after he pleaded guilty to a shocking attack on a woman who he bound and gagged with duct ...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD: Why DNA evidence could solve the 'Kerry Baby' murder case (Repost)

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The shock arrest of a man and a woman by officers investigating the case of the Kerry Baby could bring to an end the mystery of who the parents of the...

Episode 263: How the old school mafia are surviving in a modern world

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

They were once the most powerful force in America, bigger than General Motors and with a finger in every pie from politics to prostitution.But what ha...

Episode 262: Katie Taylor's homecoming bout and why it could be overshadowed by the spectre of exiled Daniel Kinahan

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Boxing champion Katie Taylor is building up for a homecoming in Dublin in May in the 3 Arena.But behind the scenes characters who once surrounded and ...

Episode 261: Could killer Patrick Quirke face re-trial for the murder of Mr Moonlight Bobby Ryan?

25 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Killer Patrick Quirke was celebrating a Supreme Court victory this week that could potentially see him re-tried for the murder of Mr Moonlight Bobby R...

Episode 260: The two faces of INLA enforcer Gerard Mackin

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

New INLA enforcer Gerard Mackin is behind bars cosying up with Kinahan Cartel leaders in Portlaoise Jail as he awaits sentence for money laundering.Th...

Episode 259: The capital murder trials of convicted Garda killer Stephen Silver

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Killer Stephen Silver will be sentenced to 40 years behind bars when he next appears before the Special Criminal Court where victim impact statements ...

Episode 258: The new sanctions on Edin Gacanin and the ongoing global effort to take down the Kinahan cartel

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Almost a year since the dramatic US sanctions of the Kinahan Organisation and its leadership, Bosnian mob boss Edin Gacanin has now been named alongsi...

Episode 257: How mob boss Barry Young was busted by 16,000 WhatsApp messages

18 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

MOB boss Barry Young has pleaded guilty to directing a criminal organisation - a charge which can carry up to life imprisonment.A massive 16,000 text ...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD: The secret service spooks and the White House love affair with Ireland (Repost)

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

They are the black-suited operatives whose role is to protect the President of the United States - and if Joe Biden’s plans to visit Ireland this su...

Episode 256: Douglas Glynn - the mystery man who managed the Kinahan Cartel

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

THE Kinahan Organised Crime Group were dealt another blow last week when a court heard that a breakthrough in encryption-cracking technology had led g...

Episode 255: The scandals, scams and secret life of killer attorney Alex Murdaugh

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

SHAMED attorney Alex Murdaugh is beginning two life sentences in the US after being found guilty of the murders of his wife Maggie and his son Paul.Bu...

Episode 254: Cornelius Price and the flashy funeral rituals of gangland's hard-men

11 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

THE funeral of gangland hard-man Cornelius Price took place in the UK this week, complete with three Lamborghinis to lead the cortège, floral tribute...

Episode 253: The life and crimes of Limerick mob boss Christy Keane

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A 30 year old nephew of gang boss Christy Keane tried to convince a court that 580 euro worth of cocaine and 1300 in cash along with two mobile phones...

Episode 252: How road rage killer Kenneth Noye became one of the UK's most infamous criminals

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

He remains one of the UK’s most written about criminals, an old school fence involved in the infamous Brinks Mat Robbery and who made his name after...

Episode 251: Jim Mansfield Jnr and Marcus Sweeney - the Celtic boom buddies who ended up on the wrong side of the law

04 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

They were the two faces of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger boom, friends who partied hard with pretty models and had champagne by the bucket-load.Jim Mansfie...

Episode 250: The new IRA and the attempted murder of PSNI Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A car has emerged as a key piece of evidence in the attempted murder of PSNI Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell after football training in Omaha ...

Episode 249: Inside the police files of Raffaele Imperiale and his links to Daniel Kinahan

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Italian mob boss Raffaele Imperiale spent years living it up in Dubai and doing business with members of the so-called Super Cartel including Dutch dr...

Episode 248: The Murdaugh family and their twisted story of murder and lies

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the case that is fascinating America. A multi millionaire lawyer from a prominent legal dynasty reports finding his wife and son dead on the gr...

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 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 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 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...