Crime World

A man once branded Ireland’s most dangerous teenager is finally ready to face justice for the murder of a harmless addict committed 16 years ago.Kurt Ryan pleaded guilty in relation to the murder of Lee Slattery, who was shot twice at close range and buried in a shallow grave in Limerick in 2010.Ryan smirked as a court heard he’d pleaded guilty to lesser charges after originally going on trial for murder.Nicola talks to Niall Donald.

Gangland killer Nicky McConnell has vowed revenge after an innocent female relative was wrongly targeted in a case of drug debt intimidation.McConnell wants to identify who threw a petrol bomb destroying the car of his associate mistakingly believed to owe money.Nicola talks to Niall Donald about McConnell.

The partner of jailed Hennessey brother Jason Hennessey Jnr has been refused an application to have two motorbikes seized by gardaí returned to her.Kayleigh McEntee claimed the bikes had been gifted to her partner by his murdered father and said she now needed to sell them to buy Christmas presents.Hennessey Jnr is serving an eight-and-a-half-year sentence for his role in the kidnap and torture of Barry Moore.

Two people appear in court after Waterford City buries its dead - a family killed as debate rages over the increase in drug debt intimidation.So what is the state of the criminal underworld where life is cheap and money is king?Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about a cultural shift which is shocking the nation.

A woman who stabbed her ex-partner to death while serving a suspended sentence for a pickaxe attack on his partner has been jailed for life.Sabrina Kehoe was free to murder Darren Quigley after being allowed to walk out of court despite admitting to breaking into his house and attacking his sleeping girlfriend.Niall talks to to Crime World’s Patrick O’Connell about Kehoe’s violent past and the devastation she has left behind.

A cheeky TikTok video posted by a convicted murderer behind bars in prison in Northern Ireland mocking the Justice Minister Naomi Long has led to a crackdown on phones behind bars.Weeks after Encrochat convict Dessie Enfield was caught trying to smuggle a phone into custody, killer Sean Anderson’s public posting has focused attention on the use of smartphones.Nicola speaks to Crime World's Steven Moore.

A former gangster's moll Ciara Mahony has pleaded guilty to her role in the murder of Jamie Tighe-Ennis, admitting that she met and spoke with him on the night he was shot dead.Mahony is due to be sentenced in the coming weeks for facilitating the murder of Ennis, who was shot dead in 2017.Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about Mahony and the gangland men in her past.

A bail hearing for murder accused Paul Drew has heard that the PSNI case against him will claim he gloated about the shooting of Robbie Lawlor with co-accused Jonathan Gill and laughed about the arrest of the wrong suspects in the immediate aftermath of his death.Drew was refused bail in Belfast but a court heard messages which the PSNI claim were sent and which were received by him on an Encrochat phone.Nicola speaks with Niall Donald.

It’s three decades since the Criminal Assets Bureau started to follow the dirty money trail into the homes and the pockets of some of Ireland’s most prolific criminals.From old school bank robbers to modern day cocaine cowboys, the Bureau has pursued homes, cash, luxury cars and even shoes which they identify as the profits of crime.In part three of our three-part special Dirty Money: Three Decades of the CAB, Nicola talks with Eamon Dillon.