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'The Milkman': How an Irish 'gentleman gangster' built a global drugs empire – and how it all came crashing down

As criminal underworld nicknames go, ‘The Milkman’ certainly stands out.

The moniker may conjure cartoonish imagery, but the reality was quite simple…

1 week, 4 days ago

Money Makeover: €160k income, six holidays... no pension?

This episode is brought to you by our sister podcast Money Talks. New episodes land every Wednesday.

Regular listeners to Money Talks will know that …

1 week, 5 days ago

Extra: “Almost zero sympathy for dead children” – unprecedented reaction to M9 crash

Five teenagers dead, three sisters and a seven-year-old boy seriously injured, and a wave of public outrage in the wake of the horrific wrong-way cra…

2 weeks ago

The murdered Irish priest, the gay Native American and the 40-year cold case

The Sand and Sage motel in Odessa, Texas was the kind of rough outpost that attracted lonesome drifters and hard drinkers.

In other words, if you wer…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

How a secret academic project blew open the Troubles’ darkest murder cases

It was supposed to be an oral record of the Troubles, made by those who were there.

Initially, the ‘Boston Tapes’ project seemed like a good idea, al…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

The many masks of serial fraudster Samantha Cookes

Carrie Jade Williams. Sadie Harris. Lucy Fitzwilliams. Jade Cookes. Samantha Black. Rebecca Fitzgerald. 

These are just some of the fabricated iden…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Extra: Horror M9 crash and social media trend gardaí seem powerless to stop

The five teenage boys killed in a horror crash when their car was driven the wrong way on the M9 motorway were all aged between 15 and 18 years of ag…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

How the young John Magnier raided America to build his bloodstock fortune

Robert Sangster later recounted how he then poured himself a ‘generous glass’ of Roederer Cristal champagne, “and I inhaled it as if it was draft lag…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Undersea threat: Is Ireland a sitting duck for a Russian cable attack?

Ireland sits at the heart of the world’s digital economy, with most transatlantic data cables passing through or close to its waters. But is Ireland …

2 weeks, 5 days ago

The DJ Carey Story Part 3: The Con Collapses

“I would class it as a form of grooming, that day in 2016 when we met at the GPA dinner and he gave me his whole life story. He was setting me up for…

3 weeks ago