Episode 1184: How the Kinahan Cartel is exploiting Ireland's coastline to land cocaine shipments
Crime World15 Sep 2025

Episode 1184: How the Kinahan Cartel is exploiting Ireland's coastline to land cocaine shipments

A new BBC documentary has exposed how the Kinahan Cartel are exploiting Ireland's coastline to land shipments from cocaine motherships.

It details how the Kinahans pooled their resources with Iranian criminals and Scottish mobsters to ship 2.2 tonnes of cocaine on the MV Matthew.


Niall is joined by the BBC's Darragh MacIntyre and Stephen Dempster who chart the course of Ireland's record drug seizure.

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