Episode 891: Peadar Keating becomes top dog in Portlaoise Prison's C block

It’s just three years since a hitman attempted to murder gang boss Owen Maguire, leaving him paralysed and dividing a town’s underworld into two feuding sides intent on wiping each other out.Since the...

15 Jul 202127min

It may seem like a simple solution to the war on drugs – legalise weed and cocaine, regulate the market and then tax the profits.This week, 100 youth workers in Ireland joined forces against prohibiti...

10 Jul 202142min

Politicians, police and media colleagues in The Netherlands have been horrified by the shooting of famous crime journalist Peter R. De Vries, who was gunned down in Amsterdam on Tuesday night.The well...

7 Jul 202112min

Mob boss Daniel Kinahan has been keeping his head down in Dubai since a BBC Panorama documentary catapulted him and his links to boxing into the spotlight last February.But now, a determined American ...

5 Jul 202120min

She was the teenage drug mule who became a household name and when she was jailed in Peru for attempting to smuggle 11 kilos of cocaine to Ibiza her fame was cemented.But since then, the story of Mich...

3 Jul 202147min

It’s the case that has baffled Northern Ireland - and on the one-year anniversary of the discovery of the body of tragic schoolboy Noah Donohue in a drain, it is clear that there are still more questi...

2 Jul 202130min

His guilty plea has meant little evidence of Peadar Keating's role in a plot to kill will ever be heard.But behind the headlines lies one of the Kinahan mafia’s highest-ranking Irish executives and on...

1 Jul 202131min

It’s the most popular genre for book lovers, podcasters and even documentary makers, with a growing audience who love all things true crime.But what is it that intrigues us about violence, fear and gr...

26 Jun 202145min