Crime World

A data breach of epic proportions, a police force scrambling for calm amidst fears of intimidation and an eye watering bill to fix a home-goal mistake which is unequalled. Nicola is joined by Belfast Telegraph Crime Correspondent Allison Morris to discuss the PSNI publication of a document detailing rank, grades and pay of their own staff. Allison details Catholic officers working within the force...

It is the shocking report that detailed how young children in the care of the state are being targeted for sex by predatory men. A paper published by academics in UCD detailed how school girls are being coerced into carrying out sex acts in exchange for luxury goods. It described how gangs of men had been hanging around hotel lobbies waiting to prey on vulnerable young children, who the state is m...

Nicola Tallant is joined by Showbiz Editor Eddie Rowley to discuss his career. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An intrepid Irish American cop joins the dots between Hezbollah, Syrian Dictator Bashar Al Assad’s brutal war, and some of Europe’s biggest drug lords. It sounds the plot from an episode of Homelands but it’s all true and forms the incredible geo political story that plays out on the pages of Chasing Shadows, A True Story of Drugs, War and the secret world of International Crime. Nicola is joined...

He's the former Scotland Yard detective who headed up the hunt for the supplier of dangerous MAC 10 automatic machine guns that found their way into the hands of underworld criminals, terrifying communities and facilitating murders from Dublin to Glasgow and across the UK.Now Michael Hallowes has penned the story of the UK's biggest gun-running investigation which followed the trail right to the h...

Cold case killer Noel Long was jailed last week for the murder of tragic mum Nora Sheehan in Cork 42 years ago. But this week his sister has said she was afraid of him since she was just six. Nicola is joined by Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney to talk about Long and his history of sexual violence against women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thomas Bomber Kavanagh co-operated with police during an investigation into weapons and their location in Ireland. The crime boss, serving 21 years in prison for drug dealing, appeared in court on weapon charges but a Judge at Westminster Magistrates Court heard that he led officers to the guns and ammunition. They were discovered in Newry in 2021.Messages taken from the Encrochat phone hack were...

As Crime World continues to celebrate turning 50, Nicola is joined by former Managing Editor of the newspaper, Neil Leslie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A caravan park millionaire Maurice Sines has made news in the high profile financial bible Bloomberg after setting in place a train of events that has threatened the liquidity of a multi billion euro company. But who is Sines and what are his connections to the Kinahan Cartel? Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the self professed Romany Gypsy and his very close friendship with some of Ireland’s...

Cold case killer Noel Long was found guilty today of the murder Nora Sheehan in Cork 42 years ago. Crime World's Clodagh Meaney attended the trial and heard the in camera evidence and arguments as he tried repeatedly to have the charges withdrawn. She was also there for the emotional moment when he was finally found guilty and when a family ended their four year wait for justice for a loving mothe...

It operates under different legislation in a country divided by a border which may be invisible to criminals, but which is very clear in different policing practices. But has the North had any more success with evidence given by those on the witness Protection Program than the Republic where the latest signing Jonathan Dowdall is set to disappear into the sunset without achieving anything for the...

The jury in the trial of 74 year old man Noel Long who is accused of the murder of Nora Sheehan in 1981 retired on Thursday evening to resume deliberations on Friday morning. Long of Passage West in Cork has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder at an unknown place 42 years ago. The jury of seven men and four women had deliberated for almost four hours on Thursday after re...

As the prosecution and defence gave their closing speeches in the murder trial of Noel Long accused in the 1981 death of Nora Sheehan, we look at the final comments, the evidence and what we expect to happen next. Clodagh Meaney speaks to Niall Donald about what she’s seen and heard in court. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A dismembered body of an unidentified victim, a missing head and a mystery that took years to solve. The case of Farah Swaleh Noor and the so called Scissor Sisters who were convicted of his brutal death fascinated the nation but behind the scenes one Detective was uncovering a tragic story that he would never forget. Nicola speaks with retired Chief Superintendent Christy Mangan about the body in...

The trial of Noel Long for the murder of Nora Sheehan in 1981 is entering it’s final phase this week when the Prosecution and the Defence give their closing speeches. Long has pleaded not guilty to the cold case murder of the 54 year old woman from Ballyphehane in Cork 42 years ago. Nicola speaks with Crime World’s Clodagh Meaney about the latest evidence in the trial. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

For the second episode of our Crime World special marking the 50th birthday of the Sunday World, Nicola is joined by Fr Brian D'arcy. The Catholic priest has been a columnist with the newspaper for almost half a century. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was the attack that lead the US to warn tourists to 'keep a low profile' in Dublin city centre. Last week, New York native Stephen Termini was left with possible life-changing injuries after an attack on Dublin’s Talbot Street. The shocking attack sparked a wave of calls to get more gardai on the beat and stamp down on random violence. But has our capital city really become a lawless hellscape?...

He was Scotland's first ambitious drug baron who went from being a diver in the oil industry to a major league importer. Ambitious and ruthless, Julian Chisholm rose the ranks at an incredible speed as he plotted to use Scotland's sleepy fishing villages and islands as his landing points for drugs bartered directly from the Cali cartel. But was his greed his undoing? Nicola is joined by reporter B...

A security crises for the state with a breach that could be one of the most serious ever discovered in Ireland. Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the stand off between top Gardai, the Criminal Assets Bureau and Revenue after an officer with full access to confidential information was caught up in a major drugs operation - but who has yet to be suspended from duty or had her access removed. We di...

Curtis ‘Cocky’ Warren in one of Liverpool's most infamous drug lords but after serving a lengthy sentence behind bars he could be heading straight back to jail after breaching strict rules around his release. Once on the Sunday Times rich list the criminal has been caught continuing a relationship with a former prison warden and breaking draconian conditions that forbid him the use of the internet...

This year marks the 50th birthday of your favourite Sunday World newspaper and what a half century it has been. To celebrate we are looking back over some of the front page stories, scandals with the big name journalists who made it the People’s Paper. So join us to reel in the years over the coming weeks on Crime World and at a special 50th birthday party event to be held on September 27th at the...

US sanctions against the Kinahan mob have been extended to a number of key associates linked to the European Super Cartel. But with all still finding shelter and safety in the United Arab Emirates can we trust Dubai to hand back the wanted? Nicola is joined by Niall Donald and Italian journalist, mafia expert and author Floriana Bulfon about the international conglomerate of cocaine billionaires w...

She made headlines for all the wrong reasons when she was dubbed a ‘Gangsta Granny’ in a pun on the David Walliams children’s book. But Deirdre Brady insists that she was only doing what she told when she laundered cash for the mob and was too afraid to say no. Brady just released from prison after serving three months of a one year sentence for her part in laundering cartel cash says she is just...

DNA taken from possessions belonging to cold case murder accused Noel Long was sent to a UK laboratory in 2022 a court has heard. Long has denied murdering 54 year old Nora Sheehan whose body was discovered in June 1981 in undergrowth near Cork City. Clodagh Meaney joins Nicola and Niall Donald to discuss the latest from the trial before a jury at the Central Criminal Court. Hosted on Acast. See a...

He is known as the Kinahan Cartel odd bod the strange outrider who tried desperately to cut the cord with organised crime. Ross Browning once claimed he’d turned his back on his childhood friends to forge a new life in a spiritual, vegan zen of healthy living and exercise. But the truth of his ‘awakening’ culminated in the arrival of Criminal Assets Bureau officers at his vast property in north Du...