Crime World

The conglomerate of mobs who ordered two tonnes of cocaine nabbed off the Irish coast last week is yet to be firmly established but what is know is that it was shipped by the Clan Del Golfo - Colombia’s largest cartel.6000 strong and based in the jungles near the border with Panama and the Caribbean and Pacific Coasts the cartel are a massive military armed with high powered weapons and responsibl...

It’s 20 months since Ukraine was first attacked by Russian forces in a ruthless war that has shocked Europe and left millions displaced. A massive death toll, horrific injuries and untold trauma has followed for the people of the towns and cities under attack while a catalogue of war crimes by Russia are being documented. But amidst the chaos a former Irish rugby star has found a way to help with...

***This episode was originally published in November 2021***When killer Joe O’Reilly bludgeoned his wife Rachel to death at their home in the Naul, Co Dublin, in October 2004 he thought he’d get away with murder. But years after he was convicted to a life sentence for his horrific crime, nobody could have expected that the former advertising executive - who is yet again to be the subject of a new...

Carl Frampton has defended his involvement with MTK boxing promotions, the company founded by Daniel Kinahan. The boxer says he has no regrets and enjoyed a life changing pay day after signing up in 2017.But is Frampton being tone deaf when it comes to Kinahan and the dirty funds washed through boxing? Should he recognise that he was inadvertently in bed with the bad guys or is he right to brazen...

A hitman desperate to become part of the Kinahan organisation tried to kill The Monk’s brother John and another relative to pay off a drug debt and ingratiate himself in the mob. Michael Carroll got 22 years in prison this week for the ruthless assassination attempts, one of which was caught on CCTV, despite pleading guilty to his crimes. Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the tragic death of J...

A notorious burglary gang headed up by the son of ‘Fat’ Andy Connors have been nabbed again after they were caught with a car load of burglary tools. John Connors who featured on the UK’s crime watch show was arrested with Thomas Wall who both now face more time in prison after their latest run in with police. But how do Irish burglary gangs like Connors outfit remain in business given their reput...

A €500 million cocaine haul on the Waterford Cork coast involving army rangers, customs, Gardai, the Naval Service and Air Corps. The Kinahan cartel and Iranian links to Hezbollah form key parts of the investigation. But what does the hidden haul on the mothership MV Matthew really tell us about the cocaine industry and what people are willing to do to transport it? Nicola speaks with Niall Donald...

Veteran criminal Dean Russell says he is no longer involved in anything more than community work and that he’s now an innocent man. But this week the Criminal Assets Bureau are putting his house up for sale with a euro 300k price tag after he handed them the keys following an 11 year battle against a proceeds of crime case. So who will buy the four bed semi detached which auctioneers say is a barg...

**This episode was first published in January 2023**He was the notorious Cosa Nostra boss who lived in hiding for 30 years and who was responsible for terrorist atrocities against Italy. Matteo Messina Denaro was amongst a group of violent mafia bosses who hit back at Italian magistrates, their families and body guards with lethal bomb attacks during the early 1990s when the brave judges took on t...

Rival gangs in Limerick’s lethal underworld feud dealt with a ‘Board of Governors’ of criminal businessman to launder their cash and make deals. Nicola speaks with journalist Eamon Dillon about the massive secret Garda investigation into the city’s gangland network which has laid bare how - in the underworld - when it comes to money - rivalry doesn’t matter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

An arson attack on an innocent family home, two sworn enemies locked in a bitter feud and fears that tensions will escalate. Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the fire in a Clondalkin house in Dublin linked to the 10 year row between gangland hot head Nellie Walsh and jailed Kinahan lieutenant Peadar Keating. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

She is the glamorous wife of caged Sinaloa Cartel boss Joachim El Chapo Guzman and the mother of their two kids and she has just been freed from jail to start her new life without him. Emma Coronel Aispuro sat loyally by his side as her husband was jailed in the US and condemned to a supermax prison for the rest of his life for a litany of violent drug crime and trafficking and a horrendous murder...

Superstar Russell Brand is the latest celebrity to be hit with claims of sex assault by victims which would have once devastated his career. But what is the likely outcome for the star from the sensational claims by four women who say he assaulted and raped them? Has the media landscape of 2023 changed enough for Brand to survive being cancelled or will he lose his status as an outspoken comedian...

An infamous financial adviser is found to have shared an office with Daniel Kinahan in Dubai where he claimed to have become a money guru for the young and ambitious. But was Norwegian native Thomas Stray, famous in Denmark for his boom and bust lifestyle, really unaware of who he was hot desking with at the Boulevard Plaza really or would a simple google search have alerted him to the background...

Nicola is joined by columnist and sports writer Roy Curtis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An estimated €188B in dirty money washes around the European economy every year - that’s according to a new EU report on the finances of organised crime. Nicola talks to journalist Eamon Dillon about dirty money and what the criminals are doing with it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has appeared in a promotional video for Dubai police but is this a PR stunt for the embattled boss or is it building bridges as the screw tightens on the Kinahan Organised Crime Group? Nicola is joined by Niall Donald and Eamon Dillon to discuss politics and policing and a fall out between Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh and his sidekick Peadar Keating. Hosted on Acast. See...

A Canadian former chef is before the courts in Toronto after it was discovered he'd been sending suicide kits out all over the world, resulting in what cops believe is at least 100 deaths. Today, I'm talking with journalist Brad Hunter about Kenneth Law and the 1,200 kits he posted after advertising his wares on the internet. He tells me how tragic deaths in Ireland, England and throughout Europe...

As Crime World continues to celebrate 50 years of the Sunday World, Nicola is joined by Features Editor Daragh Keany. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new fly-on-the-wall series following gardai on the beat in one of the country's most troubled neighbourhoods is giving viewers a window into ground zero of the drug crisis. Children groomed by drug gangs, living in stash houses and watching as their parents and grandparents are arrested for open dealing all features on the show, which is an honest-and-brutal portrayal of life in crime black spot...

IT is the high-security jail where Christy Kinahan snr and his two sons are likely to be held if they are ever extradited to Ireland. Portlaoise Prison is the State’s only maximum security jail and is protected by a detachment of armed soldiers who patrol the complex for 24 hours a day. The Defense Forces were drafted in to guard the prison after a number of escape attempts by IRA members in the 1...

A brutal assault on a young teenager by a violent drugs mob known as the Monkey Gang. A land grab by the group in the feud ridden Dublin area of Finglas where their strength and power is growing through intimidation and cost cutting. Today I’m talking with Irish Independent Crime Correspondent Ken Foy about a violent mob who are fast becoming public enemy number one and the shocking assault that w...

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has travelled to the United Arab Emirates, in a move that has raised hopes that the Kinahan top command may be on their way home. However, a file compiled over years by officers at the Garda's Drug and Organized Crime Bureau remains with the director of public prosecution, and it could be months before any charges are directed, and nothing is believed to be imminent...

Nicola is joined by Sean Boyne, the very former News Editor who named the paper. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A TV show featuring a lengthy interview with criminal John Gilligan is set to air this week in what is being dubbed the ‘Confessions of a Crime Lord.’But does the Virgin Media show deliver what it says or has it simply given the publicity hungry Gilligan another platform to air his lies? Nicola talks with Niall Donald about the revelations or not of the man who insists he didn’t order the murder o...