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 head of a gangland murder machine, we retrac...
25 Tammi 202240min
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 head of a gangland murder machine, we retrac...
22 Tammi 202247min
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 destroyed.The conviction centres around the ki...
21 Tammi 202240min
Episode 63: The spectacular downfall of Celtic Tiger playboy Jim Mansfield jnr
He was the playboy prince of the Celtic Tiger era and lived it up in a luxury mansion frequented by top models and socialites.But businessman Jim Mansfield Jnr is now doing porridge with common crimin...
19 Tammi 202231min
Episode 62: The two faces of Kinahan hitman-for-hire Alan Wilson
He’s the hitman for hire who claims to have turned his life around - and nowadays Alan Wilson says he is writing poetry and staying away from his former gang, the Kinahans, while behind bars.Just week...
15 Tammi 202235min
Episode 61: Why the fallout from the murder of Keane Mulready Woods still threatens a community
It was a brutal gangland murder that made headlines across the world. Now, two years on from the murder of 17-year-old Keane Mulready Woods, it seems an uneasy peace has descended on Drogheda.With two...
13 Tammi 202223min
Episode 60: CAB target Jonathan Gill and his new 'dispute-solving' business
He is a well known Criminal Assets Bureau target who was once put on trial for a tiger kidnapping, but Dubliner Jonathan Gill has now launched a new venture as a conflict negotiator and says he can so...
11 Tammi 202221min
Episode 59: The most brutal 24-hour period in the North's troubled past
In Northern Ireland’s troubled past there have been hundreds of atrocities and thousands of lives lost - but one 24-hour period stands out as the most brutal of all. Forty five years ago this week, un...
8 Tammi 202241min
