Episode 250: The new IRA and the attempted mu...

It was the loyalist rally that sparked chaos on the streets of Dublin after gardai failed to predict a riot. Twenty years ago last week, Dublin City Centre was smashed up as rioters attacked gardai with petrol bombs and bricks ahead of a Love Ulster parade.Niall talks to Crime Wo ...  Show more

More than 200 people across the island of Ireland were targeted by romance scams in the past year. As AI tools can now create realistic deepfake images and cloned voices, fraudsters have new ways to deceive victims. With digital relationships on the rise, telling real love from a ...  Show more

It was the biggest bank robbery in British and Irish history. Days before Christmas 2004, gangs of armed men take over the homes of two Northern Bank officials in Belfast and County Down. With family members held hostage, the officials are instructed to remove cash from the vault ...  Show more

On the 5th of October 1974, the Provisional Irish Republican Army blew up a military pub in Guildford, killing four soldiers, one civilian and injuring sixty-five others.The responsibility for the heinous act of terror was quickly thrown at three young Irish men and a seventeen-y ...  Show more

The knife used to kill John Sheridan is just the first of many clues casting doubt on law enforcement’s conclusion of murder suicide. A newspaper crime reporter, a veteran homicide detective out of Philly, and a whistleblower point to significant pieces of evidence that have been ...  Show more

In January of 1989 the director of Oregon’s Department of Corrections, Michael Francke, was brutally stabbed to death outside his office building in Salem. His killing was quickly ruled a “car burglary gone wrong”, but inconsistencies soon called the official investigation into q ...  Show more