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Episodes
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Crime World Long Read: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 2)
When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first target. A…
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Crime World Long Read: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 1)
When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first target. A…
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Episode 109 - The brutal murder of Emer O'Loughlin in a mobile home in Galway
Emer O'Loughlin (23) had her whole life ahead of her when she was brutally murdered in a mobile home in Galway in 2005. She had just finished a year-long trip…
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Episode 108 - How the Prison Services are controlling Ireland's most notorious criminals
Keeping the peace inside Ireland's prison system has never been easy - but the fall of the Kinahan cartel has made life behind bars more dangerous than…
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Episode 98: How the Kinahan Cartel broke into the U.S. Boxing scene
THE American government has KO’d the Kinahan Cartel with a raft of sanctions that have caused chaos for the mob.But when did the name Kinahan start coming on…
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Crime World Long Read: How Rathkeale's 'Dead Zoo Gang' stole millions in illegal rhino horns
The 'Dead Zoo' is the name the famous Dublin ‘wits’ came up with for the Natural History Museum in the capital.The quirky Victorian-era institution is packed…
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Episode 99: The continued 'Manhunt' for double murder suspect Kevin Parle
He was Crime World’s first guest, when the former Scotland Yard detective told us about two gangland murders, a missing fugitive and his quest to find the…
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Episode 100: The Kinahan Cartel's partnership with Scotland's most-feared mobs
He is the Scottish politician who says football is contaminated with drug money and that the tentacles of the Kinahan organisation run deep into the heart of…
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Episode 107: How Spanish cops failed to take down the Kinahan's reign in Spain
In 2010, Spanish police announced that they had dismantled the Irish Mafia by shutting down the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.Headed by Christopher Kinahan Snr…
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Episode 106: The gangland fall-out from the EncroChat phone hack
Two gangsters have been convicted in the first murder plot trial involving EncroChat phones, a system described in court as ‘an Amazon for organised…
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Episode 105: What has changed for the Kinahan Cartel since the U.S. sanctions?
One month since US sanctions were levelled against the Kinahan Cartel and as the dust settles on the dramatic announcements, what exactly has changed for those…
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Episode 104: The cold case murders that have haunted Northern Ireland
FOR decades, the Troubles in Northern Ireland set the news agenda, engulfed the resources of crime fighting and left thousands of families traumatised.But…
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Episode 103: The Lithuanian gang who flooded Ireland with heroin through their network of slave dealers
A Lithuanian gang who flew unwitting slaves into Ireland to sell heroin and then starved and beat them sounds like the plot from a TV crime drama – but that’s…
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Episode 102: The life and crimes of Kinahan cartel crony Johnny 'Cash' Morrissey
For years flash Johnny Morrissey has been splashing his cash on the Costa del Crime, where his luxury villa is a monument to the Roman Emperor Nero.Larger than…
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Episode 101: What's next for the WAGS of the Kinahan Cartel?
They are the wives and girlfriends of the first family of crime who have lived a lavish lifestyle built on the Kinahan’s billion-dollar drug business.So, what…
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Episode 101: What's next for the WAGS of the Kinahan Cartel?
They are the wives and girlfriends of the first family of crime who have lived a lavish lifestyle built on the Kinahan’s billion-dollar drug business. So, what…
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Episode 100: The Kinahan Cartel's partnership with Scotland's most-feared mobs
He is the Scottish politician who says football is contaminated with drug money and that the tentacles of the Kinahan organisation run deep into the heart of…
- Crime World
Episode 99: The continued 'Manhunt' for double murder suspect Kevin Parle
He was Crime World’s first guest, when the former Scotland Yard detective told us about two gangland murders, a missing fugitive and his quest to find the…
- Crime World
Crime World Long Read: How Rathkeale's 'Dead Zoo Gang' stole millions in illegal rhino horns
The 'Dead Zoo' is the name the famous Dublin ‘wits’ came up with for the Natural History Museum in the capital. The quirky Victorian-era institution is packed…
- Crime World
Episode 98: How the Kinahan Cartel broke into the U.S. Boxing scene
THE American government has KO’d the Kinahan Cartel with a raft of sanctions that have caused chaos for the mob. But when did the name Kinahan start coming on…
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Episode 97: Christy Kinahan Snr - The Cartel 'Godfather' who hid in plain sight
A week after U.S. sanctions were levelled at the Kinahan mafia an incredible fallout continues, as many run for cover and deny relationships with the top tier…
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Episode 96: How sadistic killer Graham Dwyer is one step closer to freedom
He is an evil and sadistic killer who lured his vulnerable victim into a dark world of BDSM and then murdered her as part of his ultimate sexual fantasy…
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Episode 95: My ordinary 'Old Man' - the UK super-criminal
AS a child Jason Wilson thought he had a regular dad, but by the time he was a teenager his 'Old Man' was well on the way to becoming one of the UK’s most…
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Episode 94: How the world's law enforcement plotted the downfall of the Kinahan Cartel
The antics of Daniel Kinahan and his insistence that he is an innocent boxing promoter wrongly accused of involvement in organised crime spectacularly…
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Episode 93: The gangland murder of James Whelan and the 'Mr Flashy' feud
The murder of drug dealer James Whelan in Dublin marks the start of what gardai fear will be a long-running and murderous feud between two factions of what was…
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Episode 92: The Russian Oligarchs who have bought up the streets of London
I’m in Knightsbridge outside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the epitome of London style and wealth, but I’m not here for oysters and champagne. Instead, I’m on a…
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Episode 91: Jim Mansfield jnr and the suitcases of Kinahan cash
He is the former businessman whose reputation lies in tatters after the High Court heard he was given €4.5 million by crime bosses Daniel Kinahan and Thomas…
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Episode 90: The evil child killers
It was an horrific crime that many vowed would never happen again. When Baby 'P' or 17-month-old Peter Connelly died having sustained 50 horrifying injuries at…
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Episode 89: The jailing of Kinahan Cartel kingpin Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh
His end was swift, delivered in the cold confines of a courtroom where Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh was committed to 21 years in prison for his crimes. The mob…
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Crime World Long Read: 'Predator' - Larry Murphy and Ireland's missing women (Part 3)
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle. But where is Larry Murphy…
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Crime World Long Read: 'Predator' - Larry Murphy and Ireland's missing women (Part 2)
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle. But where is Larry Murphy…
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Crime World Long Read: 'Predator' - Larry Murphy and Ireland's missing women (Part 1)
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area known as the vanishing triangle. But where is Larry Murphy…
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Episode 88: The day the 'plastic bag killer' confessed to Sunday World
Anne Marie Pezzillo was a regular visitor to the Sunday World offices during her days living homeless on the streets of Dublin and suffering from addiction…
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Episode 87: Behind the scenes at the Criminal Assets Bureau
It’s one of the great success stories in Ireland’s fight against crime -and now a new documentary will bring viewers behind the scenes at the Criminal Assets…
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Episode 86 - The Mysterious Death Of Sinn Fein 'spy' Denis Donaldson
It was an extraordinary series of events. A high-ranking Sinn Fein official is outed as an informer in the employ of M15 and the Special Branch of the PSNI. On…
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Episode 85 - Fionnan Sheahan's Front - Line Views Of Devastation In Ukraine
A haunting border crossing from Ukraine. People just like us leaving behind everything they know and everyone they love. And an unpredictable dictator with his…
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Episode 84: Daniel Kinahan, hotel tycoon Jim Mansfield and the house CAB want
Mob boss Daniel Kinahan’s much anticipated interview due out this week has been shelved due to legal issues at the Anything Goes Podcast with James English…
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Episode 83: The 'cleaner' jailed for his role in the gruesome Keane Mulready Woods murder
He is the first person to be jailed in relation to the brutal murder of teenager Keane Mulready Woods. Yet, despite pleading guilty to cleaning up and removing…
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Episode 82: The horror behind Ireland's recreational drug habit
It’s a stark message to young people who believe that they are just having fun. But community worker Philip Jennings says that every recreational user of…
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Episode 81: The two faces of Daniel Kinahan
Cartel chief Daniel Kinahan is posturing again, with press statements, pictures and propaganda from an army of boxers under his control. And now he is teeing…
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Episode 80: The secret service spooks and the White House love affair with Ireland
They are the black-suited operatives whose role is to protect the President of the United States - and if Joe Biden’s plans to visit Ireland this summer come…
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Episode 79: The record producer, the Swedish hit-man and Europe's most-feared crime gangs
A high-flying young record producer is gunned down outside his pricey London home after returning from a Christmas Eve celebration with his glamorous wife and…
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Crime World Long Read: Davy Tweed - The monster behind the mask
A rugby legend capped for Ireland. A politician steeped in the beliefs of loyalism. A giant who claimed family values as his flag. But behind the mask Davy…
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Episode 78: Decapitated and burned - the shocking murder of Philip Finnegan
It was still bright on the evening of September 2, 2016 when a man walking his dogs made a gruesome discovery in Rahin Woods, close to Carbury in County…
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Episode 77: The misfit serial killer who almost got away with murder
He was a loner and a misfit who lived with his parents until his early 30s but went on to become a serial killer who stalked his victims on dating apps and gay…
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Episode 76: The homeless epidemic on Hollywood's hallowed streets
It’s known as the city of dreams - where models, actors and artists seek fame and fortune in the shadow of the Hollywood Hills. But alongside the glitter and…
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Episode 75: The trial of Irish 'ISIS bride' Lisa Smith
An 'ISIS bride' lured to the Caliphate in fear of the fires of hell, a glamorous former radical who escaped Syria and unshackled herself from her extremist…
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Episode 74: 'Mr Flashy' and the gun-toting teens terrorising the streets of Dublin
Innocent women flee their homes in fear of grenade attacks, a business shuts its doors terrorised by teenage thugs, while a community lives in fear of warring…
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Episode 73: The Ormeau Road bookies' massacre and how the killers may have colluded with cops
A shocking mass murder at a bookies office in Belfast, 30 years of unanswered questions for those left behind and now an Ombudsman's report that cites…
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Episode 72: The rural crime spree striking fear into Ireland's elderly community
The brutal attack on bachelor farmer Thomas ‘Tom’ Niland in rural Sligo has struck fear into the elderly community across Ireland. In a worrying spate of…
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Episode 71: The jailing of former millionaire playboy Jim Mansfield jnr
Jim Mansfield Jnr was dealt his fate this week when Judges at the Special Criminal Court handed him down a two-year sentence, suspending the final six months…
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Episode 70: Dennis McFadden - The MI5 Chameleon who infiltrated the New IRA
He was the New IRA 'fixer' with an unclear past, but despite some red flags, Dennis McFadden managed to infiltrate the terror group and win their trust, all…
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Episode 69: The night the Loyalist Glenanne Gang murdered my daddy
Garfield Beattie is a triple murderer who was part of the infamous Glennane Gang, a brutal mob made up of Ulster Loyalists, RUC police officers and British…
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Episode 68: How the Kinahan Cartel crushed Peter 'Fatso' Mitchell's cocaine empire
He was the Irish king of the Costa until the Kinahan mob turned on him and forced the one-time drug lord into hiding for more than 10 years. But Peter ‘Fatso’…
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Episode 67: The rise and fall of Ireland's first heroin dealer, Larry Dunne
He was the first godfather of Irish crime, the man who unleashed heroin on Dublin’s impoverished housing estates and flat complexes. Larry Dunne found fame as…
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Episode 66: The cannabis epidemic threatening Ireland's teens
Across the world, cannabis is being de-criminalised and in some countries legalised but with a higher potency and soaring prices, consumption of weed has…
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Episode 65: The threats, witness murders and prison escape plot in the Ridouan Taghi trial
The murder of another witness in the Marengo Trial, the shocking revelations that suspect Ridouan Taghi was plotting a navy-seal-type jailbreak and a dramatic…
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Crime World Long Read: 'Fat' Freddie - The violent story of Ireland's most feared mobster(Part 2)
Nicola Tallant tells the story of 'Fat' Freddie Thompson, one of Ireland's most-feared mobsters. From his rise as a street fighter in Dublin to becoming the…
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Crime World Long Read: 'Fat' Freddie - The violent story of Ireland's most feared mobster(Part 1)
Nicola Tallant tells the story of 'Fat' Freddie Thompson, one of Ireland's most-feared mobsters. From his rise as a street fighter in Dublin to becoming the…
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Episode 64: The brutal and bloody reign of 'Border Fox' Dessie O'Hare
Former businessman Jimmy Mansfield Jnr went to jail this week, convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice by directing that CCTV footage be…