A suspected murder-suicide in Iceland with an Irish connection
In June 2025, the Mancel family left their apartment in Leopardstown in south Dublin, headed to Dublin Airport and flew to Reykjavik. They c...
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20 of 1,086 episodesA 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 p...
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...
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 abus...
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 Dunmurr...
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...
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 “b...
A surprising motive for criminal Robbie Lawlor's murder
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 col...
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 Hizbulla...
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...
Daniel Kinahan: What evidence will form the case against him?
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,...
Will the Peter Mandelson scandal bring down Keir Starmer?
The appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK Ambassador to the United States is a moment Keir Starmer will rue. On Monday, he faced MPs in the U...
The surprising source of Ireland's cannabis
The amount of cannabis being smuggled into Ireland has risen significantly in recent years, with most of the product for sale now coming fro...
How Ireland’s top betting tipster promoted a black market gambling site
Rob Heneghan is one of Ireland’s most popular online gambling tipsters. His social media accounts show his more than one million followers a...
Why not everyone is happy with free money for artists
When a pilot scheme was announced in 2022 to provide artists with a guaranteed weekly income of €325 a week for three years, there were more...
What Trump’s fight with Pope Leo says about his state of mind
As US president Donald Trump threatens to wipe out Iran and attacks the pope , even some former allies are questioning whether he has grown...
Fuel protests: Could some people be radicalised by last week's events?
For almost a week there were blockades and go-slows which severely disrupted the country’s road network and Dublin city centre was at a stan...
Why deaths on Irish roads keep rising
There have been 45 deaths on Irish roads so far this year – that’s six more people than this time last year. Tragically, 2025 ended as the d...
How an Irish building contractor conned US homeowners out of €1.3 million
John O’Brien’s scam was simple. Arriving in the US on a tourist visa in 2021, he set himself up as a building contractor in Massachusetts an...
How will the fuel protests end?
On Wednesday, as fuel protests over the Government’s response to rising petrol and diesel prices entered their third day it became clear the...
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