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Crime World with Nicola Tallant is a weekly podcast about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld.

  • 15 minutes 21 seconds
    Episode 927: GAA star Kyle Hayes facing possible prison time after latest legal blow

    Limerick hurler Kyle Hayes is facing a possible jail time after losing an appeal against a dangerous driving conviction.


    The GAA star had insisted in court that his driving was careless but refused to accept it was dangerous.


    Niall speaks to Sunday World news editor Eimear Rabbitt about how the court’s decision could have big implications for Hayes, who is at risk of seeing a suspended sentence activated.


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    14 March 2025, 4:00 pm
  • 26 minutes 13 seconds
    Episode 926: CAB to auction seized homes of gangland figures Ross Browning and Owen Maguire

    A marble floored mansion, a burnt out cottage, and a boarded up home decorated to the highest standard are all to go under the hammer this month as the Criminal Assets Bureau mop up their spoils.


    Nicola is joined by Eamon Dillon to speak about the auctions that will see bargain hunters snap up their dream homes.


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    14 March 2025, 6:00 am
  • 11 minutes 40 seconds
    Episode 925: Businessman admits killing wife after gardaí hack phone and find videos of her murder

    A Dublin businessman has pleaded guilty to stabbing his wife to death after gardaí hacked into his phone and found videos of her murder.


    Stephen Mooney dramatically changed his plea after it emerged that detectives had used Israeli software to break into his mobile.


    Niall speaks to Sunday World news editor Eimear Rabbitt about the brutal murder of Anna Mooney in June 2023.


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    13 March 2025, 5:14 pm
  • 22 minutes 34 seconds
    Episode 924: Ex-Olympian with ties to Kinahan cartel wanted by FBI for role in billion dollar cocaine ring

    A key player in a billion dollar cocaine trafficking ring headed up by an ex-Canadian snowboarder has links to the Kinahan Cartel and did business with them in Dubai, a US prosecutor has said.


    Officers believe former Olympic star Ryan Wedding is on the run and in hiding in Sinaloa, Mexico. He has also been placed on the FBI’s most wanted list.


    Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about a fascinating story which has seen the Kinahan mob named as customers of the notorious Mexican Cartel.


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    13 March 2025, 6:00 am
  • 21 minutes 34 seconds
    Episode 923: How Ray Collopy claimed more than €250k in social welfare while part of a drugs gang

    A Limerick man claimed more than €250k in social welfare while being ‘heavily involved’ in the activities of a drugs gang, CAB has claimed.


    Ray Collopy’s shady past was detailed by the Criminal Assets Bureau as they sought to seize €33k found in a sock.


    Niall speaks to the Sunday World’s Eamon Dillon about the Collopy brothers and their role in Limerick’s gangland feud.


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    12 March 2025, 4:00 pm
  • 34 minutes 49 seconds
    Episode 922: New IRA ceasefire possibility as dissident republican shot

    A ceasefire deal for the New IRA may be on the cards but another dissident grouping has gone to war with the attempted shooting of Sean O’Reilly.


    Nicola speaks to Allison Morris about the fascinating positions of two different terrorist factions trying to drag Northern Ireland back to its bloody past.


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    12 March 2025, 6:00 am
  • 26 minutes 54 seconds
    Episode 921: Martin 'The Viper' Foley sued by his wife over ownership of Dublin home

    Veteran criminal Martin Foley is a step closer to losing his home after a court ruled that it can be sold to pay off a tax bill.


    However, Foley’s wife Sonia is now suing him claiming she owns half the contested Crumlin house.


    Nicola is joined by Eamon Dillon to untangle the complex Criminal Assets Bureau case against the 72-year-old crook.


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    11 March 2025, 6:54 pm
  • 21 minutes 41 seconds
    Episode 920: Daniel Kinahan put lean on Conor McGregor to walk boxer into ring, lawsuit claims

    A lawsuit in the US which names Daniel Kinahan as a shadowy promoter of key boxing events claims that he put 'a lean' on Conor McGregor to walk fellow Irishman Michael Conlon to the ring at Madison Square Garden.


    Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about McGregor and the mob, and the Top Rank lawsuit that is revealing boxings dirty little secrets.


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    11 March 2025, 6:00 am
  • 28 minutes 7 seconds
    Episode 919: Mr Big goes on the run as gardaí close in on Robbie Lawlor murder probe

    The criminal known as Mr Big is on the run scared that he could be charged in relation to the murder of Robbie Lawlor.


    But he has been refused residency in the United Arab Emirates where he hoped he would get sanctuary with his old associate Daniel Kinahan.


    Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about Mr Big and what the future might hold for him.


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    10 March 2025, 6:00 am
  • 43 minutes 14 seconds
    Episode 918: Charles Dooher makes miracle recovery while Garda and PSNI hunt those who almost killed him (Part 2)

    In part two of our interview about the brutal attack on 26 year old Donegal man Charles Dooher his mum and sister describe the nightmare that was forced on them on another wise ordinary January day.



    Annemarie tells how she walked into a scene of horror at the families Donegal home to find her son had been beaten almost to death.



    And the mum and daughter appeal for help in tracking the gang of five men the north who burst into their home, beating Charles with iron bats, and for information on their paymasters in the Republic who hired their brutal services.


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    8 March 2025, 12:11 pm
  • 26 minutes 21 seconds
    Episode 917: Charles Dooher makes miracle recovery while Garda and PSNI hunt those who almost killed him (Part 1)

    The mother and sister of a young Donegal man who was beaten almost to death speak today about his miracle recovery after the horrendous head injuries he suffered at the hands of a mob paid, they believe, to kill him.


    Annemarie and Deborah Dooher have kept a bedside vigil at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast since January 20th when 26 year old Charles was airlifted from his Lifford home where he had been attacked following a campaign of sustained intimidation against his family in a dispute fuelled by jealousy and greed.


    Today in the first of a two part interview Nicola talks with Charles mum and sister about his incredible recovery against the odds.


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    8 March 2025, 12:00 pm
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