In The News Podcast
1) A sick man: DJ Carey and his cancer con
Last November former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for fraud. In July, the disgraced sportsman pleaded guilty to ten counts of deception involving thir...Show More
2) Inside the Kinahan cartel’s secret phone chats: ‘Nobody is stopping until they’re all dead’
When Sean McGovern, a trusted member of the Kinahan organised crime cartel, was extradited from Dubai last May he can’t have known the depth and breadth of the evidence gathered by the Gardaí that wou...Show More
3) Dire reviews and controversy: Why the Michael Jackson movie broke box-office records
Michael, the biopic tracking the early years of Michael Jackson, opened to dire reviews and criticism over its silence on the child sex abuse allegations levelled at the music superstar.The fans, thou...Show More
4) Car bombs and hijackings: Why two attacks show the New IRA hasn’t gone away
Last Saturday evening, a food delivery driver was hijacked in Co Antrim, a bomb was placed in his car and he was ordered to drive to Dunmurry police station. When he got there he ran in to raise the a...Show More
5) Why Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch wants to swap Lanzarote for Leinster House
For a man who has been targeted by assassins, Gerry Hutch is surprisingly easy to track down in the village in Lanzarote where he has lived for more than 10 years.He hikes in the morning, frequents th...Show More
6) After the 'feis-fixing' scandal, has Irish dancing cleaned up its act?
When Ellen Coyne heard her phone buzz in bed on a dark October night in 2022, she couldn’t have known that answering it would lead to the “biggest thing to happen to Irish dancing since Riverdance.”A ...Show More
7) The surprising reason criminal Robbie Lawlor may have been murdered
Notorious Dublin criminal Robbie Lawlor was shot dead in Belfast in 2020, when he arrived at a house in the Ardoyne area of the city, to collect a drug debt.Lawlor was a 36-year-old father originally ...Show More
8) Devastation in Lebanon as Israel's 'yellow line' leaves huge numbers displaced
Sally Hayden reports on her visit to south Lebanon, where weeks of war between Israel and the Iran-linked paramilitary organisation Hizbullah have left a trail of destruction. Thousands were killed or...Show More
9) Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor: the lifestyle that led the former prince astray and endangered the royal family's future
Former British prince Andrew fell further from grace in February with his arrest as part of an investigation into whether he abused power by sharing confidential information with his friend Jeffrey Ep...Show More
10) What evidence will form the case against Daniel Kinahan?
Daniel Kinahan, the leader of the Kinahan cartel and a member of the “super cartel” that runs about a third of the European cocaine market, was arrested last week in Dubai, where he has lived openly f...Show More