Episode 155: How cocaine is changing the face of rural Ireland

50-year-old taxi driver Raymond Shorten who targeted vulnerable women on their way home at night will be sentenced later this month for rape.Today Shorten listened as two victim impact statements were...

1 Jul 202416min

The former deputy head of counterintelligence at the FBI, Frank Figliuzzi has spent his life tracking down spies and keeping some of America’s biggest secrets.Following his retirement from the bureau ...

1 Jul 202445min

James ‘Mago’ Gately’s luxury Dublin home has been declared as ‘overwhelmingly’ the proceeds of crime in the High Court.Gately, described as a key figure of the Hutch organised Crime Group, and his par...

28 Jun 202441min

A relation of infamous gang boss “Fat” Andy Connors has admitted leading Gardai on an hour-long pursuit that ended in a spectacular crash that went viral on social media.William Connors and four other...

27 Jun 202427min

A Tayto bag tossed in a trash bin, a deft move by a murder suspect who believed he’d covered a camera and an insight into how contraband makes its way into our prison systems.Nicola chats with Niall D...

26 Jun 202417min

***This episode was originally broadcast in June 2022***A survivor of the Cold War and of the notorious Russian Gulags, Imre Arakas was an international hitman who washed up on our shores like a chara...

25 Jun 202440min

International hitman Imre Arakas is facing two murder trials in Lithuania and a court has heard that he is accused of killing of an MMA fighter as well as a celebrity gangster.Arakas who served time i...

25 Jun 202431min

A chop shop and a luxury boom boom bar formed the focus of a proceeds of crime case taken against Longford gangster Blondie Stokes.And now the father of seven is set to lose his home after a Judge sai...

24 Jun 202423min