Crime World
Episode 397: Gunman opens fire at home of former McCarthy-Dundon criminal Jimmy Collins
Shots fired at the home of former McCarthy-Dundon criminal Jimmy Collins have sparked fears of a new feud erupting in Limerick. Last week, a gunman opened fire on the home on Limerick's Hyde Road following a series of tit -for-tat incidents. It comes as Jimmy Collins, son in law of convicted rapi…
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Episode 396: How Europe's drug cartels are turning kids into 'child soldiers'
Children are being radicalised by drug gangs and being turned into killers in the same way that terrorists have, and now the EU wants to develop an early-warning system for countries to recognise the process. The tsunami of cocaine, which is still coming for the block and which has changed the who…
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BEST OF CRIME WORLD: The man who has come face to face with the world's most-depraved Serial Killers
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 Christopher Berry-Dee want to get up close and personal with the world’s most depraved.? From Aileen Wournos to the 'Monster of the Rivers' Arthur Shawcross, …
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Episode 395: Ashling Murphy trial - Court hears from State Pathologist Dr Sally-Anne Collis
The trial of Jozef Puska accused of murdering 23-year-old schoolteacher Ashling Murphy in Tullamore last year continued today in front of a jury of 3 women and 9 men. The court heard harrowing details from the post-mortem as well as other evidence from the first Garda on scene. Today I’m talkin…
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Episode 394: Ashling Murphy trial - Key eyewitnesses from crime scene take to the stand
The trial of Jozef Puska, accused of the murder of Ashling Murphy in Tullamore in January 2022 opened at the Central Criminal Court this week. Niall Donald speaks to Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney about the witnesses who came upon the scene and the prosecutions opening statement.
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Episode 393: The links between the IRA, Criminality and Paramilitary Policing
The Regency hotel trial lifted the lid on the once secretive links between Dublin's gangland criminals and armed republican groups. Secret recordings of conversations played in court showed how Gerry Hutch still believed the IRA had the power to call a halt to the feud on the city's streets. But u…
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Episode 392: The life and crimes of IRA mole Freddie Scappaticci
The intriguing story of IRA double agent Freddie Scappaticci is one of mystery and fascination and for years has been the subject of the Operation Kenova investigation due to be published in coming weeks. Nicola speaks with author and former Provision IRA prisoner Richard O’Rawe whose book 'Stakek…
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Episode 391: The investigation into the murders of Una Lynskey and Martin Kerrigan
The murder of 19 year old Una Lynskey is set to be the subject of a Garda cold case review 52 years after she was snatched from a roadside in County Meath. But behind the mystery lie layers of scandalous allegations surrounding the Garda’s so called Heavy Gang - a team of interrogators who have be…
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Episode 390: Tina Satchwell latest: Remains found in Cork home confirmed to belong to missing woman
Remains found behind a wall under the stairs in missing Tina Satchwell home have been confirmed to be the 45 year old woman. And a man remains in custody but Gardai will have to make a decision by tonight on whether to charge or release him. Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the sensational d…
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Episode 389: Kinahan mobster Liam Byrne set to be extradited to the UK on weapons charges
Spanish judges have approved the extradition of Kinahan mobster Liam Byrne to the UK where he is set to go on trial with his brother-in-law Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh and others for weapons offences. In jail in a Palma prison since his arrest on Majorca earlier this year, he will now face the journe…
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