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CRIME WORLD | Episode 261: Could killer Patrick Quirke face re-trial for the murder of Mr Moonlight Bobby Ryan?
Killer Patrick Quirke was celebrating a Supreme Court victory this week that could potentially see him re-tried for the murder of Mr Moonlight Bobby Ryan.
CRIME WORLD | Episode 260: The two faces of INLA enforcer Gerard Mackin
New INLA enforcer Gerard Mackin is behind bars cosying up with Kinahan Cartel leaders in Portlaoise Jail as he awaits sentence for money laundering.
CRIME WORLD | Episode 259: The capital murder trials of convicted Garda killer Stephen Silver
Killer Stephen Silver will be sentenced to 40 years behind bars when he next appears before the Special Criminal Court where victim impact statements from the family of Garda Colm Horkan are expected to be read.
CRIME WORLD | The new sanctions on Edin Gacanin and the global effort to take down Kinahan cartel
Almost a year since the dramatic US sanctions of the Kinahan Organisation and its leadership, Bosnian mob boss Edin Gacanin has now been named alongside the Irish mob as a business partner under the same financial restrictions.
CRIME WORLD | Episode 257: How mob boss Barry Young was busted by 16,000 WhatsApp messages
MOB boss Barry Young has pleaded guilty to directing a criminal organisation - a charge which can carry up to life imprisonment.
CRIME WORLD | Episode 256: Douglas Glynn - the mystery man who managed the Kinahan Cartel
THE Kinahan Organised Crime Group were dealt another blow last week when a court heard that a breakthrough in encryption-cracking technology had led gardai to the gang's top commander in Dublin and his drugs and weapons storehouse.
CRIME WORLD | Episode 255: The scandals, scams and secret life of killer attorney Alex Murdaugh
SHAMED attorney Alex Murdaugh is beginning two life sentences in the US after being found guilty of the murders of his wife Maggie and his son Paul.
CRIME WORLD | Episode 254: Cornelius Price and the flashy funeral rituals of gangland’s hard-men
THE funeral of gangland hard-man Cornelius Price took place in the UK this week, complete with three Lamborghinis to lead the cortège, floral tributes of guns, chainsaws and one curious front page of the Sunday World.
CRIME WORLD | Episode 253: The life and crimes of mob boss Christy Keane
A 30- year-old nephew of gang boss Christy Keane tried to convince a court that €580 worth of cocaine and €1300 in cash along with two mobile phones was for his own use at a family wedding in plush Bunratty Castle in Limerick.
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CRIME WORLD | The new IRA and the attempted murder of PSNI Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell
A car has emerged as a key piece of evidence in the attempted murder of PSNI Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell after football training in Omagh last week - a callous shooting which has shocked all Ireland.
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CRIME WORLD | Inside the police files of Raffaele Imperiale and his links to Daniel Kinahan
Italian mob boss Raffaele Imperiale spent years living it up in Dubai and doing business with members of the so-called Super Cartel including Dutch drug baron Ridouan Taghi and Daniel Kinahan.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 247: The real-life stories behind Ireland's 'Narco' boom
DUBLIN was a city of grinding poverty, mass unemployment and a never-ending queue of young people seeking a future abroad when the heroin epidemic hit with catastrophic force.
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CRIME WORLD | The Murdaugh family and their twisted story of murder and lies
It’s the case that is fascinating America. A multi millionaire lawyer from a prominent legal dynasty reports finding his wife and son dead on the grounds of their isolated hunting lodge. Both have been shot.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 246: Conor McGregor and the childhood friendships with Irish gangland figures
He was the shadowy Cartel lieutenant who was rumoured to be out to get UFC star Conor McGregor after a pub brawl at the height of the Kinahan and Hutch feud.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 244: How British mobster Robert Dawes became a pied piper for a generation of Dubai-based criminals
BRITISH drug baron Robert Dawes became known as the pathfinder for a generation of criminals, including the Kinahan Cartel, when he was one of the first to make Dubai his home and the headquarters of his trans-global empire.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 243: The return of the Dundons and the secret property portfolio of Kinahan mobster Ross Browning
RAIDS on the homes of notorious crime brothers, the discovery of a cocaine mixing factory and the seizure of a home and equestrian facility owned by a Cartel odd bod - welcome to Crime World.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 242: The downfall of 'Otoniel' the world's biggest cocaine dealer
He's the Colombian narco who rose from humble origins to become the biggest wholesaler of cocaine in the world.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 241: When victims of crime come face to face with their offenders
VICTIMS of crime can often feel forgotten in the process of justice, but what benefits are there to bring them together with an offender?
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CRIME WORLD | The murder of Michelle Scholfield and new evidence which puts convicted murderer at crime scene
When Gilbert King was asked by a judge to look into a case of wrongful conviction he was shocked by the request and intrigued by the story.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 239: How the cocaine boom means crime gangs now pose as big a threat in the EU as terrorism
Organised crime is now posing as big a threat to countries in the EU as terrorism a commissioner warned this week.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 238: How George 'the Penguin' Mitchell's encrypted phone network was smashed by European cops
He is Ireland’s most wily Godfather of Crime - a criminal so slippery he has managed to evade the law for decades while rising to the very top of Europe’s underworld.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 237: Kinahan cartel money man Brian Mahony's rise and fall at the hands of Criminal Assets Bureau
He’s the Kinahan fixer who decked out his house with Plasma screens and bullet-resistant glass, but now Brian Mahony has gone and the keys of his palace are with the Criminal Assets Bureau.
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CRIME WORLD | Epiosde 235: Death on the tracks - the mystery of the Irish teen chased to his death on a railway line
THE death of a 14-year-old boy in the Northern Ireland seaside town of Portrush has long been a mystery, and has posed a myriad of painful questions for his family.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 234: The Irish mob who became Canada's cocaine kings
They are the crime gang who took control of Canada's lucrative cocaine trade while proudly displaying their Irish roots.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 233: Robbie Lawlor and the cross-Border vigilante murder mob
THE murder of Robbie Lawlor in a Belfast housing estate continues to be the subject of a major police inquiry, with the PSNI and prosecutors insisting they have no interest in a suspected Dundon hit team named and identified during a recent bail …
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 232: Keane Mulready-Woods and the men who helped facilitate his grisly murder
Paul Crosby and Gerard Cruise had to listen to the tragic victim impact statement of Elizabeth Mulready, mum of murdered teen Keane Mulready-Woods, as she told a court this week how inconceivable it was that the sadistic minds of those who killed …
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 231: 'The day I witnessed the Regency Hotel murder and the gunman in drag'
SEVEN years ago this week journalist Alan Sherry was sent on a news assignment like no other - and on an otherwise ordinary Friday, he found himself in the middle of the Regency Hotel gun attack.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 230: April D-Day for Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch in Regency murder trial
AFTER 54 days at the Special Criminal Court the Regency murder trial came to an end with a verdict promised by April 17.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 229: Innocent or guilty? The dramatic closing arguments in the Gerry Hutch murder trial
THE case for and against Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch closed today with the prosecution and defence addressing the court for a final time.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 228: The final days of the Gerry Hutch murder trial
LAWYERS at the Regency trial will enter the final stretch tomorrow when the closing speeches to the three-judge panel at the Special Criminal Court get underway.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 227: The dramatic capture of mafia 'boss of bosses' Matteo Messina Denaro
HE was the notorious Cosa Nostra boss who lived in hiding for 30 years and who was responsible for terrorist atrocities against Italy.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 226: Marcus Sweeney - The celtic tiger playboy who became a target for the Criminal Assets Bureau
CELTIC tiger businessman Marcus Sweeney once appeared to be the man who had everything - successful investment interests, a fast car and Ireland's most-beautiful model on his arm.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 225: The life and crimes of perma-tanned mobster Mickey Green (Part 3)
HE was an A-list star of the criminal underworld, a gangster so wily that he travelled the world amassing a £100million fortune and died not from a bullet, but from his love of a sun-kissed tan.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 224: The shocking murder of mum-to-be Natalie McNally
A SHOCKING murder in Lurgan, Co Armagh leaves a pregnant woman dead, a family devastated and a community in fear of a killer on the loose.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 223: The life and crimes of perma-tanned mobster Mickey Green (Part 2)
HE was an A-list star of the criminal underworld, a gangster so wily that he travelled the world amassing a £100million fortune and died not from a bullet, but from his love of a sun-kissed tan.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 222: The life and crimes of perma-tanned mobster Mickey Green (Part 1)
HE was an A-list star of the criminal underworld, a gangster so wily that he travelled the world amassing a £100million fortune and died not from a bullet, but from his love of a sun-kissed tan.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 221: The second coming of gangland boss Brian 'King Ratt' Rattigan
BRIAN Rattigan has re-emerged as a significant crime figure following his release from Portlaoise Prison last year.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 220: Jailhouse shock as inmate 'confesses' to being the shooter in Regency Hotel murder
A JAILHOUSE confession by an inmate claiming that he was the Regency shooter - not Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch - was described as a ‘curious development’ in the murder trial by lawyers for the State who said they had disclosed a document to the defence.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 219: The advances in DNA technology helping to solve the world's most-puzzling cold cases
ONE was a high-flying 22-year-old career girl whose father was a multi-millionaire, the other a recently-divorced mother of four who was a popular social worker caring for underprivileged kids.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 218: The final stages of the Regency murder trial and what does 2023 have in store for the Kinahans?
THE trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch will resume this week after a lengthy Christmas break - before the three judges at the Special Criminal Court retire to consider their verdict.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 217: The MI6 spy and the 'man in the bag' mystery
His was a bizarre and macabre death which led to more questions than answers.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 216: The amateur super sleuths solving real-life crimes
Who says you can’t solve crime in your spare time?
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 215: The hunt for 'The Silver Killer' - the UK's mysterious serial murderer
CHESHIRE, England 1996, Howard Ainsworth violently bludgeoned his wife to death with a hammer before taking his own life. Three years later in the same town, Donald Ward beat his wife to death with a ceramic hot water bottle before using the …
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 214: Jonathan Dowdall: I didn't suggest getting IRA to carry out hits on Kinahan mob (Day 7)
DAY seven of the cross examination of Jonathan Dowdall came to its conclusion, as it was put to him that he had a role in a botched gun attack on the Kinahan mob at the Red Cow Hotel months before the Regency, and that he was trading bombs for …
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Top of the charts | Crime World: Top 10 most listened-to episodes of Nicola Tallant’s hit podcast in 2022
Crime World with Nicola Tallant has enjoyed a momentous year. With over 9.2 million listens, 1 million of those coming in the month of October alone, the podcast has dominated the Irish True Crime podcast charts.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 213: Jonathan Dowdall denies planning 'mass murder' and 'planting bombs' (Day 6)
Jonathan Dowdall’s evidence to the Special Criminal Court is now centred on his own 10-hours of bugged conversation in a car with Gerry Hutch.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 212: Why the takedown of 'Bomber' Kavanagh marked a major milestone in the war on crime
THE takedown of Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh can be directly linked to a decrease in the gangland murder rate in Ireland, the country's most-senior officer fighting organised crime has said.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 211: The two faces of State witness Jonathan Dowdall (Day 5)
THE Special Criminal Court watched two faces of State witness Jonathan Dowdall during his fifth day under cross examination, as tapes of his arrest were played and he was asked to comment on the lies he told gardai back in 2016.
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CRIME WORLD | Episode 210: Jonathan Dowdall: I lied to gardai to save my family (Day 4)
Jonathan Dowdall watched from the witness box at the Special Criminal Court at videos of his arrest from 2016 on firearms offences, where he told gardai that Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch never told him anything about the Regency Hotel.