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Crime World

Crime World

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Crime World, with Nicola Tallant, is an Irish podcast about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld. Discussing the real stories, and the real people, behind the grisly headlines.


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658 - Episode 527: Inside Merchants Quay - Dublin’s Drug use and homelessness support service
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  • 658 - Episode 527: Inside Merchants Quay - Dublin’s Drug use and homelessness support service

    He is the CEO of Merchants Quay Ireland with a lengthy career behind him in the prison service making him perfectly placed to understand and empathise with the complexities of long term addiction.


    Later this year the first injecting rooms will open at the Liffeyside facility and Eddie Mullins hopes the pilot programme will prove that giving addicts back some dignity will help with the public perception of them.


    Nicola speaks to Eddie about his career, his experiences with the marginalised of society and his hopes for the future of addiction services.





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    Fri, 29 Mar 2024 - 1h 09min
  • 657 - Episode 526: Tensions continue between associates of slain gangsters Jason Hennessy Snr and Tristian Sherry

    Tensions have continued to simmer in the feud between associates of murdered Jason Hennessy and Tristan Sherry with houses burned out and fears attacks could escalate.


    The Christmas Eve massacre at a Dublin restaurant which saw Hennessy shot by Sherry who was then overcome and murdered in front of festive crowds is using up huge policing resources as rivals vow to avenge both men’s deaths.


    Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the latest in the ongoing Blanchardstown feud.



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    Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 13min
  • 656 - Episode 525: The kidnap and rescue of a Belfast-based sport star

    A suspected drug dealer is bundled into a car in Belfast and driven across the border to Dublin amid allegations he owes a senior criminal figure a debt.


    A Garda operation saves the man before he can be tortured or killed by his kidnappers but in true gangland style, the victim refuses to make a complaint.


    Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the dramatic scenes that prove that for gangland there is no border.



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    Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 18min
  • 655 - Episode 524: Senior Kinahan cartel lieutenant Peadar Keating fights extradition to the UK

    Encrochat phone hack evidence has been heard for the first time in an Irish court as Senior Cartel member Peadar Keating fights extradition to the UK on firearms charges.


    Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the messages the Crown say were passed between Keating and criminal kingpin Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh along with Cartel lieutenant Liam Byrne as they plotted a firearms double cross to get the boss a shorter jail term.





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    Mon, 25 Mar 2024 - 38min
  • 654 - Episode 523: Serial con-artist Samantha Cooke duped Kildare family

    A serial fraudster was employed by a family in Kildare as a live in au pair after being outed on a hit podcast and in a series of newspaper articles as a conwoman.


    Samantha Cooke managed to reinvent herself as child care worker Sadie Harris and lived for six months with the family while her real identity faced the eye of a publicity storm about a series of cons across Ireland.


    Nicola speaks to journalist Mark Tighe of the Sunday Independent about the extraordinary story of a woman who keeps changing her name, look and background and who is currently gone dark somewhere in Ireland.


    He tells her about her latest scam which terrified a young mother returning to work and about her colourful background as an artist, a writer and even a psychotherapist.



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    Sat, 23 Mar 2024 - 36min
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