Lines of Enquiry

In this episode of Lines of Enquiry: Case Notes, John is joined by Martin Egan, retired Detective Sergeant with An Garda Síochána. Martin spent 30 years in the force and was also trained as a Garda crisis negotiator. He reflects on the communication, patience and judgement required in critical incidents, where the aim is to bring people to safety while working as part of a wider Garda response. Ma...

As season 3 comes to an end, host of Lines of Enquiry, John Sweetman reveals what to expect over the next few weeks from Case Notes. He shares the date for the return of the narrative episodes, with many new stories already being worked on by the Lines of Enquiry team. John also notes some recent feedback from listeners. If you would like to get in touch, follow the Instagram page @linesofenquiryp...

In this episode of Lines of Enquiry: Case Notes, John continues his conversation with Frank Greaney, Courts Correspondent and award-winning journalist and broadcaster. Frank explains the work that goes into complex criminal investigations, the role of An Garda Síochána, and the way evidence is presented and tested in court. He also reflects on public reactions to sentencing and why court outcomes...

In this episode of Lines of Enquiry: Case Notes, John is joined by Frank Greaney, Courts Correspondent and award-winning journalist and broadcaster. Frank has spent much of his career reporting from courtrooms on some of the most high-profile criminal trials in Ireland, including several we have covered on Lines of Enquiry. He reflects on the responsibility that comes with reporting on live cases,...

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In this episode of Lines of Enquiry: Case Notes, John is joined by Geoff Knupfer, former lead investigator with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains.  For almost two decades, Geoff led searches for some of the Disappeared, those abducted, murdered and secretly buried during the Troubles, helping to return loved ones to families who had spent years waiting for answer...

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In the early hours of Thursday, the 13th of February, 1997, 17-year-old Ciara Breen disappeared from her home on Bachelor’s Walk in Dundalk. Her bed was empty. The front window had been left open. There was no packed bag, no money missing, and nothing to suggest she had planned to stay away.   At first, it looked like Ciara had slipped out quietly into the night, leaving herself a way back in...

When Gerry McGinley was arrested for minor drug possession charges on the 6th of June 2000, he insisted upon his innocence. He said the drugs had been planted on him, and he was convinced someone was trying to get rid of him.  By that time, McGinley had already received threatening phone calls at his home along with warnings from the IRA that he should leave town. He was a man with a lot...

In December 2008, a man calls 999 for assistance. His name was Eamonn Lillis, and his wife Celine Cawley had been attacked by an intruder at their Howth home in Dublin. Celine was rushed to hospital, and an alert went out to find the man who had attacked the business mogul. Gathering evidence, gardaí started to piece together what had happened at her home that cold December day, leaning on CCTV fo...

On the 24th of March in 2017, Richard Satchwell walked into a Cork Garda station to report that his wife, Tina, was missing. He told gardaí their relationship had deteriorated, and Tina had been gone for four days having taken €26,000 euros in cash from their savings. It seemed that Tina had made a concerted effort to disappear. For six years, Richard and Tina’s family pleaded for the Fermoy nativ...

In June 2017, a family out for a picnic discovered a human torso discarded in a ditch in the Wicklow mountains. Gardaí and army personnel came together to comb the area for any clues. The search recovered fifteen more body parts dumped in nine different locations across a 30km range. Initially, it was believed the body was that of a young man, after the recovered bones were measured. But this theo...

Elaine O’Hara disappeared from her Dublin home in 2012, at the age of 36.  She left behind no trace. Her family struggled to understand what had happened to their bright and friendly sister and daughter. One year later, a woman walking in the woods of Dublin discovered Elaine’s remains. As Gardai began to piece together her final moments and days they saw traces of a dark and sinister side to...

On the 19th of March 1996, gardaí were called to a pub in Co Wicklow after its panic button was activated in the small hours of the morning. Catherine Nevin, who owned the pub with her husband Tom, was found slumped in a hall with her hands tied and a gag around her neck. What initially looked to be a botched burglary at a time when Wicklow businesses were being targeted by Dublin gangs, soon...

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When Bryan Kennedy became convinced his wife’s online friendship with a Canadian couple were a threat to his marriage, he turned to a man he believed could arrange murder. In this episode of Lines of Enquiry: Incident Brief, John Sweetman examines a disturbing murder for hire plot that began in Harold’s Cross and targeting two unsuspecting women in Canada. Kennedy feared that his wife was having a...

On the 17th of September 2019, Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, a company formerly owned by bankrupt billionaire Sean Quinn, disappeared near his home in Fermanagh. The 50-year-old father-of-six was taken across the Irish border to Cavan and what happened next would shock the nation and expose years of threats and intimidation against QIH directors and their families. In this...

On the 4th of October 2004, Rachel O'Reilly, a 30-year-old mother-of two was found dead in her north county Dublin home. She had been murdered. Her mother, Rose Callaly, found Rachel's lifeless body in a pool of blood. It all pointed to a botched burglary and gardai began a hunt for her hiller. What followed was a rigorous investigation on matters closer to Rachel's home. In this episode John...

In June 2021, armed Gardaí carried out a search at a hostel on Gardiner Street in Dublin. They arrested a 37-year-old man named Mark Wolf. He had a sordid past. He was a wanted man in the UK. So how did gardaí find him? And what dark obsessions was he harbouring? Presented by John Sweetman Created by Darren Cleary Episode Written by Darren Cleary Script Edited by Eoin Brennan Produced by Siobhan W...

On the 14th of May 2018, Ana Kriégel left her home in Leixlip, Co Kildare, with a promise to her father that she wouldn't be long.  But Ana never came home and her disappearance sparked a three-day search of a local park, the last place where she had been seen walking with another child. It was a missing person's case that gripped the nation as everyone hoped the smiling girl in her favourite...

In this episode of Lines of Enquiry: Case Notes producer Siobhan Maguire steps out from behind the scenes to share a significant update on one of season one’s most troubling stories, the death of 23 year old Kelly Lynch in Monaghan. Siobhan outlines new findings from an independent pathology review commissioned by the Katie Trust, including questions over the original cause of death, issues around...

In this episode of Lines of Enquiry: Case Notes, retired Detective Superintendent Frank Keenaghan takes us inside one of the most shocking cases in recent Irish history, the abduction and murder of 24 year old student Jastine Valdez. Frank led the frantic 24 hour search in May 2018, from the first early morning briefing to the moment a member of the public spotted the suspect’s car, and the dramat...

In this episode of Lines of Enquiry: Case Notes, renowned courtroom artist Mike O’Donnell takes us inside the hidden world of Ireland’s criminal courts as seen from his sketchpad. In his day to day, Mike sits just feet away from judges, juries, gardaí, families and some of the country’s most high profile defendants, capturing not only the people in the dock but the tension, emotion and fragile hum...

In this episode of Lines of Enquiry: Case Notes, former Garda Detective Sergeant Alan Bailey takes us inside the hidden world of cold case investigation. With more than 200 unsolved homicides sitting on the desks of just eight detectives, he explains how and why an investigation goes cold, what it takes to justify reopening a case, and why there is always still hope. Alan talks through some of the...

As season 2 comes to an end, host of Lines of Enquiry, John Sweetman reveals what to expect over the next few weeks from Case Notes. He shares the date for the return of the narrative episodes with 12 new stories already being worked on by the Lines of Enquiry team. If you would like to get in touch, follow the Instagram page @linesofenquirypodcast or email us linesofenquiry@goloudnow.com