Crime World

Crime World Extra: Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch and his battle with the Special Criminal Court

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Veteran criminal Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has been given permission to take a High Court challenge against the jurisdiction of the Special Criminal ...

Episode 55: Face to face with wife killer Joe O'Reilly

27 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When killer Joe O’Reilly bludgeoned his wife Rachel to death at their home in the Naul, Co Dublin, in October 2004 he thought he’d get away with m...

Crime World Extra: The failed gangland hit that brought down the Kinahan cartel

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It was planned as the Kinahan Mafia’s trophy kill, with only Daniel Kinahan and Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh's most trusted circle of lieutenants pr...

Crime World Extra: Is Graham Dwyer's murder conviction about to be overturned?

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ireland’s mobile phone data retention systems are under the spotlight and European legal experts have warned they may have breached the law.Now, kil...

Episode 54: The rise and spectacular fall of the Sean Quinn empire

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He was the one-time billionaire and the pride of his native Cavan, where a generation of workers shared the spoils of his success.Businessman Sean Qui...

Crime World Extra: 20 Years Of The PSNI in Northern Ireland

18 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A vision for a new police force in Northern Ireland 20 years after Chris Patten’s ground-breaking report identified a need for a 50-50 recruitment p...

Crime World Extra: Davy Tweed - the evil monster behind the legend

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He was a towering Ulster rugby star who won four caps for Ireland in the mid 1990s and went on to forge a political career as an ultra-conservative un...

Episode 53: The Downfall of Queen of Con - Marianne 'Mair' Smyth

13 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When Irish heiress Marianne ‘Mair’ Smyth walked in the door of Jonathan Walton’s LA apartment neither of them could have guessed what lay ahead....

Crime World Extra - The Kevin Lunney Kidnapping Case

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He was the violent enforcer of Slieve Rusheen who operated with impunity for more than eight years terrorising ‘traitors’ who turned on the mighty...

Crime World Extra: Prison Contraband and a Kinahan cartel party behind bars

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A Kinahan mob prison party to celebrate the birthday of a dangerous criminal is held behind bars in an Irish jail.An inmate uses his smart phone to up...

Episode 52: The final days of the once-notorious Ballymun Towers

06 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It was the greatest social housing disaster in Ireland’s history - one which promised new beginnings for countless tenement families but instead bec...

Crime World Extra: The sorry end of once-powerful gangland 'fixer' John Traynor

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He was the gangland fixer known as 'The Coach' and for decades he tried to play the criminal underworld, police and the media.Criminal John Traynor dr...

Crime World Extra: How Australia's biggest drug cartel was brought to its knees

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It was a sensational blow to organised crime - and when Australia’s Federal Police joined forces with the FBI to create a phone network to infiltrat...

Episode 51: Philip Cairns - The boy who never came home

30 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He was the boy who never came home – the teenager whose innocent face has haunted generations of Irish parents.Now, the disappearance of schoolboy P...

Crime World Extra: The dramatic takedown of Colombia's most notorious drug lord

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been described as the biggest blow against the Colombian drug cartels since the famous takedown of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s.Seven years since...

Crime World Extra: The life and extraordinary death of Northern Ireland drugs baron Noel Johnston

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He was the notorious drug dealer who introduced heroin to his hometown of Ballymena, County Antrim.And after a lifetime of staying one step ahead of t...

Episode 50: The rise of Narco terrorism in The Netherlands

23 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A journalist shot dead on the street. A criminal lawyer assassinated on the doorstep of his Amsterdam home and the brother of a state witness gunned d...

Crime World Extra: The bloody past of critically ill gang boss Cornelius Price

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He is due to face kidnap charges later this year in the UK and has been a central and violent figure in the Drogheda feud - but it seems gang boss Cor...

Crime World Extra: The hunt for on-the-run prisoner and gangland heavyweight Johnny Mangan

20 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He is a gangland heavyweight serving time for drugs and weapon offences and was once named in court as the triggerman in the murder of mob boss Martin...

Episode 49: The murder of Sunday World journalist Marty O'Hagan - 20 years on

16 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been 20 years since Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan was murdered on a Lurgan pavement as he walked home from a pub with his wife Marie...

Crime World Extra: The life and crimes of Kinahan Cartel mobster Graham 'The Wig' Whelan

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Convicted drug dealer Graham ‘The Wig’ Whelan is facing jail after pleading guilty to a number of offences relating to his arrest at a luxury Dubl...

Crime World Extra: The horror of Ireland's sex slave trade

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

They are the first people in Ireland to be convicted of human trafficking for a prostitution ring and now Alicia Edosa and Edith Enoghaghase are findi...

Episode 48: The former FBI agent on the trail of missing Annie McCarrick

09 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A FORMER FBI agent working with the family of missing Annie McCarrick has said that a Spanish serial killer arrived in Dublin as a stowaway on a boat ...

Crime World Extra: Why new DNA evidence could finally solve the 'Kerry Baby' murder case

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the 37-year murder mystery that has haunted Ireland and remains the biggest policing scandal in modern history.A dead baby washes up on a Kerry...

Crime World Extra: Anthony Flynn and the sexual assault accusations that rocked a homeless charity

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It was a charity set up to respond to Dublin’s homeless crises and to provide food and shelter to the most vulnerable. But now the Inner City Helpin...

Episode 47: The Horror Of Life Under The Brutal Taliban System of Justice

02 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The news reports from Afghanistan are becoming more concerning by the day as Taliban militants return to their own rule of law with barbaric punishmen...

Crime World Extra: The moment Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch touched down to face Regency murder charge

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch is back in an Irish prison for the first time in nearly 40 years after he was flown on a military jet into Baldonnel Aerodrome ...

Crime World Extra: The Murder Of Gabby Petito - the case that has rocked America

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a murder mystery that has divided America, pitted armchair sleuths against seasoned detectives and turned a spotlight on how the media treats v...

Crime World Extra - Criminal Godfather Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He has lost in his bid to halt extradition attempts in a Spanish court and now Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch must come home to Ireland and finally face t...

Episode 46: The crime gangs and smugglers on the Irish Border

25 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The tag ‘Bandit Country’ was long used for what was once described as lawless ‘South Armagh’.But times have changed and now the towns situated...

Crime World Extra: The Rathkeale Rovers And The Rhino Horn Traffickers

24 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A French court has convicted a gang of eight men including four members of the Rathkeale Rovers Organised Crime group for trafficking rhino horn and i...

Crime World Extra: The Burglary Gang That Terrorised The Nation

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In life they formed a prolific burglary gang that terrorised the country and made use of the motorway system as a getaway route.Criminals Graham Taylo...

Episode 45: The Molly Martens Murder Files

18 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He suffered a brutal death at the hands of his wife and her former FBI agent dad, but the path to justice for Jason Corbett’s family has been far fr...

Crime World Extra: Terror on the streets as two of Ireland's most-feared inmates walk free from jail

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

They are two of Ireland’s most-dangerous offenders but both have just walked free from jail and are now living amongst communities.Celyn Eadon stabb...

Crime World Extra: The Gangs Of Limerick

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It was once a city under siege where ruthless gangs and one notorious family ruled with fear and intimidation. But a massive crackdown on crime, follo...

Episode 44: The Art Detective And James Bond’s Aston Martin

11 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He’s the art detective who hunts stolen masterpieces and who re-unites works of art with their rightful owners years after they have been looted.Fro...

Crime World Extra: The Lone Wolf ISIS Attacker Radicalised In An Armchair

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A UN report released earlier this summer estimates that thousands of ISIS fighters have poured into Afghanistan where Taliban rule may once again prov...

Crime World Extra: The Ship Nabbed With 20 Tonnes Of Cocaine

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The seizure of 20 tonnes of cocaine on board the MSC Gayane at the Packer Marine Terminal in Philadelphia two years ago remains the largest in US cust...

Episode 43: The Witness - The Story Of Joey 'The Lips' O'Callaghan

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

State witness Joseph O’Callaghan gave up his name and his old life when he gave evidence against gangland killers Brian Kenny and Thomas Hinchon. Fo...

Crime World Extra: Last Days Of Freedom For Daniel Kinahan

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He once enjoyed a lifestyle fit for a Sultan in Dubai but now Daniel Kinahan is running scared in his desert bolthole as his €2 million per month ma...

Episode 42: The Two Norries - The extraordinary tale of two reformed Cork drug addicts

28 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For countless young men and women living with addiction each day is a chaotic tapestry of crime, drug taking and violence.The well-worn paths to priso...

Crime World Extra: The Arrest Of Kinahan-Linked Mafia Boss Raffaele Imperiale

25 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Considered one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives, suspected of being a boss of the Camorra mafia and the one-time owner of two stolen Van Gogh mas...

Episode 41: The criminal gangs behind the illegal puppy farming market

21 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Puppy farming has become a multi-million euro business, and thanks to the huge demand in the UK, Ireland has become a major player in the market.But m...

Crime World Extra: The dramatic capture of Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

His arrest is the latest chapter in the extraordinary saga of Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch, regarded as one of Ireland’s most wily criminals.In prison in ...

Episode 40: The reformed dope dealer who lifted the lid on the international drugs trade

14 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

HE was the ‘geek’ who ended up in prison after becoming a college drug dealer - but now Niko Vorobyov has made it his mission to get to the heart ...

Episode 39: The dark tales of murder and mayhem from a tabloid crime journalist

07 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He’s 30 years covering tales of murder and once began his day being briefed on the nightly body count of New York city, where he knocked on doors an...

Episode 38: The changing face of Northern Ireland's underworld

31 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It was once a clearly divided underworld where paramilitary groups ruled with fear in a strictly organised way. There were rules, sides and an unwritt...

Crime World Extra: Killer Dave Mahon and the tragedy of the Fitzpatrick family

30 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Killer Dave Mahon walked free from prison this week after serving five years for the manslaughter of his stepson, 23-year-old Dean Fitzpatrick, who he...

Crime World Extra: When the business of crime takes centre stage on the church altar

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a time for celebration and a place to remember the values and morals which shape an individual’s journey through life. But sometimes funerals...

Episode 37: The haunting case of missing Mayo woman Sandra Collins

24 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a missing-person’s case that has cast a dark shadow over a small town in County Mayo where the haunting face of Sandra Collins stares out fro...

Crime World Extra: Notorious gangland criminal Brian Rattigan to be released

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He headed up one side of two notorious feuding gangs that claimed 15 lives in 10 years in Ireland’s first cocaine war.And even behind bars Brian Rat...

Crime World Extra: The 'Cocaine Goldrush'

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A half tonne of cocaine disguised as charcoal, which landed in Rotterdam, was seized at the port after an intelligence-led operation headed up by Iris...

Crime World Extra: The 'Cocaine Goldrush'

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A half tonne of cocaine disguised as charcoal which landed in Rotterdam was seized at the port after an intelligence-led operation headed up by Irish ...

Episode 36: The ex-LA cop who claims Marilyn Monroe was poisoned by Bobby Kennedy

17 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a tale made for the big screen – a Hollywood starlet threatening to expose an illicit love affair, a missing diary revealing a web of intrigu...

Crime World Extra: The murder of journalist Peter R. De Vries and the case against Ridouan Taghi

16 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dutch crime reporter Peter R. De Vries died in hospital yesterday, a week after he was shot on a busy Amsterdam street in an attack which has drawn ou...

Crime World Extra: The warring factions behind the Drogheda gangland feud

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s just three years since a hitman attempted to murder gang boss Owen Maguire, leaving him paralysed and dividing a town’s underworld into two f...

Episode 35: Ireland's war on drugs - should we legalise cannabis and cocaine?

10 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It may seem like a simple solution to the war on drugs – legalise weed and cocaine, regulate the market and then tax the profits.This week, 100 yout...

Crime World Extra: The Cold-Blooded Shooting Of Dutch Crime Journalist Peter R. De Vries

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Politicians, police and media colleagues in The Netherlands have been horrified by the shooting of famous crime journalist Peter R. De Vries, who was ...

Crime World Extra: Trouble in paradise for mob boss Daniel Kinahan

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mob boss Daniel Kinahan has been keeping his head down in Dubai since a BBC Panorama documentary catapulted him and his links to boxing into the spotl...

Episode 34: Drug mule Michaella McCollum and the case of the 'Peru Two'

03 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

She was the teenage drug mule who became a household name and when she was jailed in Peru for attempting to smuggle 11 kilos of cocaine to Ibiza her f...

Crime World Extra: The search for answers in the death of tragic schoolboy Noah Donohoe

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the case that has baffled Northern Ireland - and on the one-year anniversary of the discovery of the body of tragic schoolboy Noah Donohue in a...

Crime World Extra: The mobsters behind the Kinahan murder plot of James 'Mago' Gately

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

His guilty plea has meant little evidence of Peadar Keating's role in a plot to kill will ever be heard.But behind the headlines lies one of the Kinah...

Episode 33: True crime junkies - what intrigues us about violence, fear and gruesome death?

26 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the most popular genre for book lovers, podcasters and even documentary makers, with a growing audience who love all things true crime.But what...

Crime World Extra: A Bumper Year For The Criminal Assets Bureau

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Three residential properties, one city centre business premises and one million of stolen crypto currency isn’t bad for a day's work at the Criminal...

Crime World Extra: How Turkish Mafia & 'The Family' Crime Gang Plotted To Flood Ireland With Heroin

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

They were part of a plot to flood Ireland with heroin, but when the Turkish mafia formed an alliance with the gang known as 'The Family' things didn’...

Episode 32: The horrifying crimes of Maddie McCann suspect Christian Brueckner

19 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He’s the oddball German drifter suspected of abducting and murdering Madeleine McCann in 2007 who has now been identified by Irish woman Hazel Behan...

Crime World Extra: The Unsolved Murder Of Michaela McAreavey

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The murder of newly-married Michaela McAreavey on the honeymoon island of Mauritius is one of the most high-profile, unsolved cases in the world.Yet s...

Crime World Extra: Declan Brady - the gangland 'Mr Nobody' who laundered the Kinahan cartel cash

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He was the unknown face in the crowd spotted by Garda officers as they poured over footage and images of mourners at the funeral of Regency Hotel murd...

Episode 31: Hakan Ayik - the criminal who accidentally helped the FBI smash a global crime network

12 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Just 24 hours before news broke of the ANOM phone hack, the newsroom of the New Zealand Herald got a tip-off that there was a raid on the properties o...

Crimeworld Extra: How The FBI hacked the ANOM phone network in the world's greatest crime sting

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hot on the heels of the Encrochat and Sky ECC takedowns, criminals are again counting the costs of their so called ‘bullet proof’ mobile phone sys...

Crimeworld Extra: The Marengo Crime Trial, Ridouan Taghi and the links to Daniel Kinahan

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the Netherlands' trial of the century, with infamous underworld boss Ridouan Taghi in the dock along with 16 of his men who face accusations re...

Episode 30: 'Fat' Andy Connors And The Controversial Home He Called 'The Ranch'

05 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

‘Fat’ Andy Connors was part of a notorious burglary gang that terrorised Ireland for years, robbing elderly people in their homes and often using ...

Crimeworld Extra: The final blow against the 'Byrne Organised Crime Gang'

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The home of senior Kinahan lieutenant Liam Byrne has just been put on the on the market for just €400,000 after it was seized by the Criminal Assets...

Episode 29: The Life And Crimes Of 'Fat' Freddie Thompson

29 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

CARTEL killer Freddie Thompson organised the murder of 'easy target' David ‘Daithi’ Douglas to bulk up the mob’s body count in Dublin and impres...

Crimeworld Extra: The Notorious Criminal Behind The Blanchardstown Shootout

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The chaotic life of gangland thug Daniel Goulding came to an abrupt and dramatic finale when he walked quietly from his Blanchardstown home two hours ...

Crimeworld Extra: The Rise And Fall Of Kinahan Cartel Boss Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh is facing a tonne of misery in the UK after a recent court appearance heard that he is to be sentenced in relation to an ...

Episode 28: My life banged up next door to IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the H-Block

22 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Forty years ago this month, 21-year-old Jake Mac Siacais cried in his H-Block cell as his friend Bobby Sands died on hunger strike.Jake had been in th...

Crimeworld Extra: The Shadowy Cyber Criminals Behind The HSE Hack

20 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The shadowy 'Wizard Spider' gang behind the HSE hack - who are they and what has motivated them to attack our health service?Senior cyber security exp...

Episode 27: The Merseyside Mobster who flooded the UK and Ireland with Cocaine

15 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He is one of Europe's most-notorious drug dealers who flooded the UK and Ireland with cocaine and heroin until he was nabbed in 1996.While behind bars...

Crimeworld Extra: Ireland's war on drugs and the communities that bear the cost

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Criminologist Trina O'Connor speaks to Nicola Tallant about the drug dealing at Oliver Bond flats in Dublin's south inner-city.She details how the com...

Crimeworld Extra: The Kinahan Cartel's Inner-City Drugs Supermarket

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

CRACK cocaine dealers are running an open drugs supermarket in the flat complex where mob boss Daniel Kinahan grew up.This week, a Sunday World invest...

Episode 26: The Man Who Has Come Face To Face With The World's Most-depraved Serial Killers

08 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He’s the UK’s number-one true crime author who made his name from his conversations with serial killers.But what made former Royal Marine Christop...

Episode 25: The Encrochat phone hack and why no one has been busted in Ireland

01 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It was the phone hack that rocked the underworld and led to thousands of arrests and record breaking seizures of drugs, guns and dirty money. Yet, Ire...

Extra- The former SF councillor charged with the murder of David Byrne

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One week after three men were charged in connection with the Regency Hotel attack and a European Arrest Warrant was issued for Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hu...

Crimeworld Extra - The Europe-wide hunt For Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Following the news that a European Arrest Warrant has been issued for Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch in relation to the Regency Hotel attack in 2016, Nico...

Episode 23: The child street soldiers of Ireland's crime gangs

17 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

They are the kids who become the soldiers of the criminal gangs.Plucked from the streets and troubled homes, they are groomed to become drug dealers, ...

Crimeworld Extra - The Ridouan Taghi Trial

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

THE trial of violent Dutch-Moroccan gangster Ridouan Taghi, whose merger with Daniel Kinahan’s mob, the Italian mafia and Eastern European gangs for...

Episode 22: The organised crime gangs behind Ireland's seedy vice trade

10 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week Crime World looks at Ireland's multi-million euro vice trade and the ruthless organised crime gangs and pimps who control the women selling ...

Crimeworld Extra - The Molly Martens Retrial

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Tom and Molly Martens were freed from prison in the US after they were granted bail pending a retrial in the case of the murder of Limerick...

Episode 21: The Wilsons - Ireland's most feared clan of killers for hire

03 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John, Keith, Alan, Eric and Luke Wilson were once Ireland’s most feared gangland family who terrorised the underworld and threatened the pillars of ...

Episode 20: 'I married a psychopathic bigamist, con man and sex offender'

27 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, t...

Episode 19: The Black Widow

20 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

She is the self-professed gangsters' moll who married a mobster and then wound up in prison for life for the murder of her hard-man lover.But Linda Ca...

Episode 18: The man who brought down Whitey Bulger and exposed the feared mobster as an FBI informer

13 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

BOSTON gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s role as an FBI informant is a lesson for police forces across the world in how NOT to handle their touts...

Episode 17: The Moroccan drug lord, the Kinahan mob and the rise of the European super-cartel

06 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He’s the violent gangster whose merger with Daniel Kinahan’s mob, Italian mafiosa and Eastern European gangs formed a European super cartel.But Du...

Episode 16: The American guns fuelling the deadly Mexican Cartels and drug wars

27 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Drug war in Mexico – how the narcos and their violent sicarios are being armed by legally-sold weapons in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

Episode 15: The low-level criminals and hit squads behind the Hutch-Kinhahan feud

20 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The drug addicts, drop-outs and drifters behind the Hutch-Kinahan murder cells. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 14: New Zealand's drug war and the rise of the biker gangs

13 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

New Zealand is the envy of the world but it’s also the most expensive place on earth to buy cocaine and meth, which has fuelled the rise of a danger...

Episode 13: How the Rathkeale Rovers became the scourge of Europe

06 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Fake covid tests, antique treasures and the theft of precious rhino horns. How the Rathkeale Rovers left their spiritual home in Limerick to become a ...

Episode 12: Ireland's five-year war on organised crime

30 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

She started her career as a rookie cop on one of Ireland’s first drug units, chasing down heroin dealers like Tony ‘King Scum’ Felloni.Now she i...

Episode 11: Gangland's a-list celebs - The Krays

23 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

They are the a-listers of gangland – murderous twins whose faces are iconic images of the underworld. Ronnie and Reggie Kray were immortalised in mo...