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Episode 21: The Wilson family - Ireland's most-feared clan of killers for hire
Nicola Tallant chats with journalists Stephen Breen and Owen Conlon about the Wilson family - Ireland's most feared killers for hire
John, Keith, Alan, Eric and Luke Wilson were once Ireland’s most feared gangland family who terrorised the underworld and threatened the pillars of the State.
Bonded by blood, the five Wilsons operated as guns for hire as they honed their skills as killing machines in the brutal world of feuding drug gangs.
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