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 rapist Thomas O'Neill, is said to have had a falling out with a rival drug dealing faction. 

Niall Donald speaks to to Eamon Dillon about the rising tensions in Limerick and how it is being played out on the streets and on social media.  

Episode 397: Gunman opens fire at home of former McCarthy-Dundon criminal Jimmy Collins 

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 whole face of organised crime is to blame for the shocking societal changes being recognised by the European think thank.

The warnings come at the same time the Maersk shipping company have said its entire industry is under threat from cocaine cartels determined to ship their cargoes across the Atlantic.

Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the evolution of organised crime into the biggest threat along with terrorism that we are now facing.

Episode 396: How Europe's drug cartels are turning kids into 'child soldiers'

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, he has delved deep into the crimes and minds of psychopaths.

In an interview with Crime World, Berry-Dee explains what drew him to the dark world of more than 30 serial killers and why their shocking stories continue to fascinate the public.

BEST OF CRIME WORLD: The man who has come face to face with the world's most-depraved Serial Killers

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 talking to Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney about the cause of death, the beginnings of the investigation and what the court can expect to hear next. 

Episode 395: Ashling Murphy trial - Court hears from State Pathologist Dr Sally-Anne Collis 

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.

Episode 394: Ashling Murphy trial -  Key eyewitnesses from crime scene take to the stand

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 unlike previous generations of criminals who feared Republicans, the Kinahan cartel were not cowed by dissidents and took the fight to the paramilitaries.

Niall Donald is joined by Dr Brian Hanley from Trinity College Dublin about his book 'Republicanism, Crime and Paramilitary Policing in Ireland' and about the IRA's uneasy relationship with so called ordinary crime.

Episode 393: The links between the IRA, Criminality and Paramilitary Policing

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 'Stakeknife’s Dirty War' exposes British intelligent's top informer and his role in the IRA’s Nutting Squad.

He tells Nicola about a narcissist who turned traitor and his sinister role as a notorious torturer who may have told his handlers who was going to live and die during Northern Ireland’s dirty war.

Episode 392: The life and crimes of IRA mole Freddie Scappaticci

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 been criticised for extracting false confessions in murder cases from suspects using force, coercion and even violence.

So should the Gardai be investigating their own or is it time for a full public enquiry into their activies throughout the 1970s and 1980s?

Nicola speaks to award winning Irish Daily Mail journalist and columnist Jenny Friel who has written extensively about their Lynskey case and the ripple effects it has had on families, friends and a community torn apart by the heavy handed tactics of Gardaí.

Episode 391: The investigation into the murders of Una Lynskey and Martin Kerrigan

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 developments and the body under the stairs.

Episode 390: Tina Satchwell latest: Remains found in Cork home confirmed to belong to missing woman

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 journey back to the dock and the case against him compiled by the National Crime Agency.

But where did it all go wrong for the head of the Byrne Organised Crime Group and his brother-in-law the mighty Bomber Kavanagh who once held the position as Daniel Kinahan’s number one?

Did they believe they were untouchable, that they had perfected their trade-in wholesale drug dealing and that they would never be caught?

Nicola talks to Niall Donald about the fall of Liam Byrne and his uncertain future doing porridge.

Episode 389: Kinahan mobster Liam Byrne set to be extradited to the UK on weapons charges

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