Shattered Lives
Episodes
'I dreaded going to work': A former Garda on why she left - and what it says about the state of the force
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Young resigned from An Garda Síochána last year, and was one of 109 to quit the force last year - the highest number in five years. Michael ...
The week in crime: Kinahan whereabouts, the Limerick murder, Kerry Babies case & Garda priorities
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Healy and Michael O'Toole bring you the next edition of 'The week in crime'. We look at the whereabouts of the Kinahan cartel, the latest in a m...
A life in crime: Careers in crime reporting, threats to journalists & the most memorable stories
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In today's Shattered Lives, we discuss what it is like to spend a life in crime. Reporting, at least. Michael O'Toole and Paul Healy talk to Ciaran B...
Annie McCarrick, the cold cases of Ireland's missing women & the suspects Gardai believe may have been involved
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Gardai opened a murder investigation into missing New York native Annie McCarrick in Dublin. Today, Paul speaks to the former detective who...
Elaine O'Hara's life, gruesome murder & the failed appeal of her killer Graham Dwyer
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: this episode contains graphic evidence from the murder trial of Graham Dwyer. If this is something likely to affect you, this may be an episo...
The Week in Crime: Garda corruption case, Graham Dwyer appeal, Barbie Kardashian & issues housing violent prisoners
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'The Week in Crime', we discuss a number of cases in Irish law. Michael O'Toole and Paul Healy look at the case of Barbie Kardashi...
Keeping police safe from terrorist attempts: PFNI chief talks John Caldwell and threats to policing in Northern Ireland
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Police Federation for Northern Ireland chief Liam Kelly joins us today to discuss the threats to policing in the north after the attempted murder of J...
The week in crime: The murder of Detective Colm Horkan, sex abuse priest Joe Dunne & the missing Tina Satchwell
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's crime stories, Paul Healy and Michael O'Toole discuss the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan. 46-year-old Stephen Silver has been s...
Exclusive Ian Bailey interview on Sophie Toscan du Plantier case: 'I am not a danger to women'
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MURDER-accused Bailey has insisted he’s not a danger to women - despite his history of domestic violence. Speaking to ‘Shattered Lives’, Bai...
The week in crime: John Brogan shooting in Mayo, Burke family removed from court and shooting deaths in Ireland
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The week in crime looks at the week's crime stories in Ireland, with Paul Healy and Michael O'Toole. We look at the Burke family's removal from a Dub...
Keane Mulready-Woods murder & Drogheda feud: Chilling WhatsApp from Robbie Lawlor & Nicola Donnelly on the drug war in Louth
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at the Drogheda drug feud that led to the death of Keane Mulready-Woods. We look at the antagonists in Cornelius Price and R...
The week in crime: We speak to victim of Limerick acid attack, Graham Dwyer appeal & covering murders as a journalist
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Healy and Michael O'Toole discuss the crimes they have been working on as journalists this week. Paul speaks to Simone Lee, victim of an acid at...
Busting Christy Kinahan, Dublin Narcos and policing the Hutch-Kinahan feud: Former Assistant Garda Commissioner Mick O'Sullivan on the war on drugs
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Former Assistant Garda Commissioner Mick O'Sullivan joins Michael O'Toole on Shattered Lives today. We discuss a storied career that saw him help rev...
The week in crime: John Caldwell shooting in Omagh, Daniel Kinahan in Dubai, Caitriona Carey arrest and Ballyfermot
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael O'Toole and Paul Healy discuss the major crime developments from this week in Ireland. Foremost in the minds of most today is the shooting of...
Cornelius Price death: Former Garda Commissioner who thinks him an 'evil psychopath' and emotional testimony from a victim's mother
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cornelius Price, one of Ireland's most notorious gangster, died in a Welsh hospital this weekend. In this episode of Shattered Lives, Michael O'Toole...
Exclusive: Dissident IRA man Shane Rowan on fighting Dowdall & 'the plug' in part two of interview with Paul Healy
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In an exclusive interview in today's Daily Star, Paul Healy speaks to convicted dissident IRA man Shane Rowan about his role in the purchase of weapon...
Exclusive: Paul discusses his two-hour interview with convicted dissident IRA man Shane Rowan - part 1
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In an exclusive interview in today's Daily Star, Paul Healy speaks to convicted dissident IRA man Shane Rowan about his role in the purchase of weapon...
The murder of Jastine Valdez: The lead investigator speaks to us about her death
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2018, Jastine Valdez - a young Filipina woman who had moved to Ireland - went missing. It sparked a nationwide manhunt for the person responsi...
Michael Barr murder: 'Daniel Kinahan offered to pay us because he was sorry for killing my brother'
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Seven years to the week after the Regency Hotel murder, the sister of another victim in the feud speaks to Shattered Lives. Michael Barr was murdered...
Garda corruption: The John Murphy investigation and the fight against 'bent coppers'
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the latest episode of Shattered Lives, Ciaran Bradley and Michael O'Toole discuss the investigation into retired superintendent John Murphy, servin...
Gerry Hutch murder trial: The guns, arrest warrants, and Dowdall's trips up north
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch has drawn to a close in Dublin's Special Criminal Court, Ciaran Bradley puts your questions to Mick O'Toole and...
Gerry Hutch murder trial: Your questions on Hutch, the IRA, the 'yokes' and much more
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch has drawn to a close in Dublin's Special Criminal Court, Ciaran Bradley puts your questions to Mick O'Toole and...
Gerry Hutch murder trial: The Regency murder trial draws to a close
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Shattered Lives, we continue to cover the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court. Paul Healy speaks to Micha...
Gerry Hutch murder trial: The final curtain as closing speeches made by prosecution & defence
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Shattered Lives, we continue to cover the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court. Paul Healy speaks to Micha...
Gerry Hutch murder trial: Major evidence ruling in Regency murder trial in potential blow to prosecution
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Shattered Lives, we continue to cover the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court. Paul Healy speaks to Micha...
Gerry Hutch murder trial: What it's like to receive a threat to your life & 'light at the end of the tunnel' in the case
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Shattered Lives, we continue to cover the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court. Paul Healy speaks to Micha...
Gerry Hutch murder trial: Dowdall & Hutch Whitehall 'meeting' forensically examined on the stand
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Shattered Lives, we continue to cover the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court. Paul Healy speaks to Ciara...
Gerry Hutch murder trial: Was Jonathan Dowdall where he said he was? Phone updates & your questions on the case
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode where we cover the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Paul Healy speaks to Ciaran Bradley about the latest ...
Gerry Hutch murder trial: Garda discusses Dowdall statements, 'cloned' cabs & your questions
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode where we cover the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Paul Healy speaks to Ciaran Bradley about the latest ...
Gerry Hutch murder trial: Does phone data vindicate Jonathan Dowdall?
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode where we cover the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Paul Healy speaks to Ciaran Bradley about cell site a...
Gerry Hutch trial: Regency murder trial becomes 'curiosity' shop & Patsy Hutch Jr discussed at length
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We return to Dublin' Special Criminal Court where the Irish Daily Star's chief correspondent Paul Healy has the latest from the Gerry Hutch murder tri...
Gerry Hutch murder trial: 'Confession' as Dowdall witness protection in the balance
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode where we cover the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Paul Healy speaks to Ciaran Bradley about dramatic, a...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch murder trial: Your questions answered (part three)
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the last question and answer episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Ciaran Bradley brings your queries to the Paul ...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch murder trial: Your questions answered (part two)
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Ciaran Bradley brings your questions to the Paul Healy and Mick O...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch: Your questions answered on the case and the Hutch-Kinahan feud
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Ciaran Bradley brings your questions to the Paul Healy and Mick O...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch: Jonathan Dowdall, the torture tapes and an end... of sorts
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Mick O'Toole and Paul Healy discuss the latest in the case.Paul w...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch: Tempers begin to fray during Jonathan Dowdall testimony
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Mick O'Toole, Paul Healy and Ciaran Bradley discuss the latest in...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch: Jonathan Dowdall's 'bomb-making' questioned in day 6 of evidence
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Mick O'Toole and Paul Healy discuss the latest in the case.Paul w...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch: Jonathan Dowdall's curtailed UAE trip & cross-examination
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Mick O'Toole and Paul Healy discuss the latest in the case.Paul w...
Trial of the Century: Gerry Hutch - Jonathan Dowdall: "I don't care if I die - I'm not a rat"
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Mick O'Toole and Paul Healy discuss the latest in the case.Paul w...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch: Jonathan Dowdall, drug wars and plug tours
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Mick O'Toole and Paul Healy discuss the latest in the case.Paul w...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch trial: Jonathan Dowdall & Hutch come face-to-face in hugely dramatic day
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Mick O'Toole and Paul Healy discuss the latest in the case.Paul w...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch: Jonathan Dowdall's court appearance in doubt?
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Ciaran Bradley and Paul Healy discuss the latest in the case.Paul...
Trial of the Century: Gerry Hutch - A dramatic day at the Special Criminal Court in Regency trial
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Ciaran Bradley and Mick O'Toole discuss the resumption of the cas...
The Hutch-Kinahan feud: A history - part two
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Ciaran Bradley and Mick O'Toole give the background to the feud t...
The Hutch-Kinahan feud: A history - part one
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Ciaran Bradley and Mick O'Toole give the background to the feud t...
Shattered Lives: If you liked this...
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Before we resume our podcasts into the trial at Dublin's Special Criminal Court, we wanted to point you in the direction of some other podcasts you mi...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch: The tapes, the 'yokes' and 'the real Gerry Hutch'?
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Ciaran Bradley and Mick O'Toole discuss the goings-on in the case...
Trial of the Century - The Monk murder trial: The 'Hutch tapes' are heard & insight into the Hutch-Kinahan feud
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Paul Healy and Mick O'Toole discuss the goings-on in the case.Rec...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch: 'Bombshell' SCC revelations and Daniel Kinahan's Qatar links
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Paul Healy and Mick O'Toole discuss the goings-on in the case.Rec...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch murder trial: The missing key & the inner workings of the Hutch crime gang
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Paul Healy and Mick O'Toole discuss the goings-on in the case.Rec...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch trial from Special Criminal Court & alleged Kinahan enforcer update
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Paul Healy and Mick O'Toole discuss the goings-on in the case.Rec...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch murder trial: The Monk's prison drug 'intervention' & Dowdall jail update
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Paul Healy and Mick O'Toole discuss the goings-on in the case.Tod...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch murder trial: The Regency aftermath
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Paul Healy and Mick O'Toole discuss the goings-on.Today involved ...
Trial of the Century: Gerry Hutch trial CCTV, Patsy Hutch & FF politician's Dowdall visit
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the Gerry Hutch murder trial at the Special Criminal Court, Paul Healy and Mick O'Toole discuss the goings-on.Today involved ...
Trial of the Century: Gerry Hutch, 'Flat Cap' Murray & the inside story of the Kalashnikovs
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Irish Daily Star crime correspondents Paul Healy and Mick O'Toole give updates from day three of the Gerry Hutch murder trial from the Special Crimina...
Trial of the Century - Gerry Hutch: 'Traumatic' CCTV footage of Byrne murder, photographers' evidence
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In day two of the so-called 'Gangland trial of the century' of Gerry Hutch, the Special Criminal Court heard evidence from journalists at the scene an...
Trial of the Century: Gerry Hutch murder trial - 'The Monk' in court: day 1
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Irish Daily Star crime correspondents Mick O'Toole and Paul Healy report from Dublin's special criminal court where the murder trial of alleged gangla...
S2 Ep6: Stephen & Breege Quinn: The parents of the man murdered by IRA-linked gang
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2007, Ireland was rocked by the brutal murder of Paul Quinn.The young man was found beaten to death in a shed in Co. Monaghan, with Gardai ...
S2 Ep5: Berna Fidan: "We don't know if Esra is dead or alive.."
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"It is so hard to live with the unknown. My father passed away but we know where he is. With Esra, because we don't know where she is, I think that is...
S2 Ep4: John Whelan: fighting for his murdered sister and nieces
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was Christmas morning 2008 when something out of a nightmare visited a young family.Sharon Whelan was a young, loving mother to two beautiful child...
S2 Ep3: Sally Rodgers: The open wound of an unsolved murder
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sally Rodgers is this week's guests on Shattered Lives, with Paul Healy.Sally's partner, Michael, was killed at their home in Tallaght in 2009, with S...
S2 Ep2: Kathleen Chada and a tragedy that shocked Ireland to its core
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Chada lost her two boys Eoghan (10) and Ruairi (5) when they were strangled to death by their father Sanjeev on July 29, 2013.The unimaginabl...
S2 Ep1: Shattered Lives - Series 2 starting Thursday 18th November
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
something about themselves and the state of Ireland today.Join us for series two of Shattered Lives on Thursday 12th November, starting with the story...
Shattered Lives - Series 2 starting Thursday 18th November
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In series two of Shattered Lives, journalist Paul Healy meets the people whose lives have been affected by the most heinous cases in recent Irish hist...
6: Episode 5 - 'Keep Joe O'Reilly behind bars'
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The shocking murder of mother-of-two Rachel Callaly continues to make headlines in Ireland, almost 17 years on.Bludgeoned to death by her husband Joe ...
5: Episode 4 - Fiona Doyle
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fiona Doyle was seven years old when her father Patrick O'Brien abused her on the night before her First Holy Communion.She would end up suffering thr...
4: Episode 3 - Andrew McGinley
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The tragic and horrific deaths of Conor (9), Daragh (7) and Carla (3) McGinley made headlines across Ireland and beyond.Their mother Deirdre Morley wa...
3: Episode 2 - My murdered father - Mr Moonlight
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Father-of-two Bobby Ryan was a 'happy-go-lucky' character, known across Tipperary and beyond as a popular DJ under the stage name 'Mr Moonlight.'But B...
2: Episode 1 - Unsolved - The murder of Kenneth Fetherston
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we explore the unsolved murder of Kenneth Fetherston, who was stabbed to death and dumped in the Dublin mountains in 2009.His devastat...
1: Trailer - Shattered Lives
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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