Episode 174: How the Troubles hid a history of collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and security forces

A vision for a new police force in Northern Ireland 20 years after Chris Patten’s ground-breaking report identified a need for a 50-50 recruitment policy for Catholics and Protestants has failed to li...

18 Nov 202136min

He was a towering Ulster rugby star who won four caps for Ireland in the mid 1990s and went on to forge a political career as an ultra-conservative unionist.After his death on October 28 in a motorcyc...

16 Nov 20211h 6min

When Irish heiress Marianne ‘Mair’ Smyth walked in the door of Jonathan Walton’s LA apartment neither of them could have guessed what lay ahead.For reality TV maker Jonathan, Mair came across charming...

13 Nov 202154min

He was the violent enforcer of Slieve Rusheen who operated with impunity for more than eight years terrorising ‘traitors’ who turned on the mighty Sean Quinn.His death from a massive heart attack as U...

10 Nov 202138min

A Kinahan mob prison party to celebrate the birthday of a dangerous criminal is held behind bars in an Irish jail.An inmate uses his smart phone to upload a video where suspected hitman Trevor Byrne j...

9 Nov 202138min

It was the greatest social housing disaster in Ireland’s history - one which promised new beginnings for countless tenement families but instead became ground zero for the heroin epidemic.When the Sta...

6 Nov 202140min

He was the gangland fixer known as 'The Coach' and for decades he tried to play the criminal underworld, police and the media.Criminal John Traynor dreamed of wealth and women when he joined the ranks...

3 Nov 202137min

It was a sensational blow to organised crime - and when Australia’s Federal Police joined forces with the FBI to create a phone network to infiltrate drug gangs, the fallout shocked both police and po...

2 Nov 202118min