Irene White: Price of Murder
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It's 2005 and Christmas festivities are in full swing. Coloured fairy lights twinkle through the dark of the evening. Merry music plays on the radio in shops and pubs across the country. Friends, families and neighbours come together in celebration. In Castle Blainie, County Monaghan, a young woman opens the door to a family friend. The two are the same age and have been friends since attending the Gaeltacht together, back when they were in school. He lives nearby. He's drunk, but not slurring. She thinks he should stay for a while to sober up before driving home. They sit down in her living room. He is not his usual self. There's clearly something on his mind. He asks her if she's heard about a murder earlier that year, one thirty minutes away in Dundalk.
She says she has. I did that, he says. She doesn't believe him. He can tell she doesn't believe him. He wants to convince her. He wants someone to know. He begins to describe how he stabbed the woman multiple times as she stood at her back door. He stands up and shows her how he cut the woman's throat. Her heart pounds as she listens to him. He tells her he felt high after the murder. She frantically tries to think of ways to get him out of the house. He continues to talk about the murder, insisting that she can search it on the internet if she doesn't believe him. She convinces him it's time to go home, so he gets into his car and drives away. She watches the red glow of his car taillights get further and further away, until he disappears from view.
. When someone is killed in Ireland, the Gardaí call in a specialist unit of forensic crime scene examiners from the Technical Bureau. This is Ireland's real-life version of CSI, but it's nothing like the movies or TV shows. For 25 years, I was one of the detectives on that team. My name is John Sweetman. My job as a guarded detective in the Technical Bureau was to read the evidence that could not speak for itself. I learned to see what others might miss. Fingerprints smudged on the handle of a door. Weapons disguised in everyday objects. Handwritten notes that revealed more than the writer ever intended. The smallest traces often unraveled a bigger story. And now, I'm here to tell you those stories. In this podcast from Go Loud, I take you inside some of Ireland's most haunting investigations.
This is Lines of Inquiry, a Go Loud original podcast that follows the evidence step by step and tries to uncover the real story behind the headlines. In this episode, two mothers lost within the same year, a 20 year fight for justice and a confession that raises more questions than it answers. After the turn of the 20th century, a tide of new ideas and styles began to flood Europe. It was the beginning of a new modern era, and with it came a new style of design and architecture, Art Deco. Known for its sleek lines, symmetry and geometric forms, Art Deco expanded beyond its origins in Paris to influence the construction of everything from iconic skyscrapers like the Chrysler Building in New York to stately homes in Ireland.
In Dundalk, County Louth, one such Art Deco home was built on Demain Road, a flat-roofed, two-storey home with long, sleek horizontal lines, painted a cool shade of white. It sat on a substantial plot of land where, in years gone by, locals could access ice for food preservation. As years went on, the home became known locally as Ice House. By April of 2005, Ice House was home to 43-year-old Irene White, her daughters, 17-year-old Jennifer and 4-year-old Doreena, and her 6-year-old son, Davin. Outside the house, in the lawns that backed up onto surrounding Ice House Hill Park, with its duck pond and blooming crocuses and daffodils, sat a mobile home. Irene's mother, Maureen, had moved into it two years earlier.
She left the family home in nearby Omeath, where Irene had grown up, along the coast of the Coulee Peninsula in northern Loud, to be closer to her daughter. Maureen had been very affected by the death of her husband, Irene's father, Matthew, a few years beforehand.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:06–11:23
2
What happened on the morning Irene White was found dead?
11:23–26:35
3
How did the Gardaí initially investigate the Ice House murder scene?
26:35–34:56
4
What clues pointed investigators toward a possible contract killing?
34:56–44:22
5
How did the cold‑case review team uncover the anonymous Australian tip?
44:22–53:24
6
What role did Anthony Lamb’s confession play in solving the case?
53:24–1:02:52
7
How were the mastermind and accomplices identified and prosecuted?
1:02:52–1:06:48