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Crime World, with Nicola Tallant, is an Irish podcast about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld. Discussing the real stories, and the real people, behind the grisly headlines.
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Crime World, with Nicola Tallant, is an Irish podcast about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld. Discussing the real stories, and the real people, behind the grisly headlines.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Episode 611: The burglary gang behind viral high-speed Garda chase

    Episode 611: The burglary gang behind viral high-speed Garda chase

    A relation of infamous gang boss “Fat” Andy Connors has admitted leading Gardai on an hour-long pursuit that ended in a spectacular crash that went viral on social media.
    William Connors and four other younger men were lucky to escape serious injury when their stolen Audi Q5 smashed into a roundabout and flipped into a supermarket car park back in April 2022.
    Nicola speaks with Eamon Dillon about the frightening high-speed chase and the burglary gang behind it.

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    • 27 min
    Episode 610: Suspected killer at centre of plot to smuggle drugs into prison

    Episode 610: Suspected killer at centre of plot to smuggle drugs into prison

    A Tayto bag tossed in a trash bin, a deft move by a murder suspect who believed he’d covered a camera and an insight into how contraband makes its way into our prison systems.
    Nicola chats with Niall Donald about how prison staff nabbed inmate Nicky McConnell and his cunning plan.

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    • 17 min
    REPOST: The life and crimes of Kinahan hitman Imre Arakas

    REPOST: The life and crimes of Kinahan hitman Imre Arakas

    ***This episode was originally broadcast in June 2022***
    A survivor of the Cold War and of the notorious Russian Gulags, Imre Arakas was an international hitman who washed up on our shores like a character dreamed up in a work of fiction. His paymaster for this trip was Daniel Kinahan, the son of Christy Kinahan Snr and director general of the Irish mafia on the Costa Del Sol where Arakas lived. He’d worked for them before and he’d always been paid swiftly and efficiently on completion of a job He’d flown into Dublin with a tent, a little camping stove, fishing rods and binoculars, looking every bit the nature lover who enjoyed holidays in the great outdoors. Despite his celebrity as an international hitman for hire, Arakas was confident that nobody would know him in Ireland and that he could pass off as a tourist. It didn’t quite work out like that though. This is his story.

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    • 40 min
    Episode 609: Kinahan hitman Imre Arakas to face two murder trials

    Episode 609: Kinahan hitman Imre Arakas to face two murder trials

    International hitman Imre Arakas is facing two murder trials in Lithuania and a court has heard that he is accused of killing of an MMA fighter as well as a celebrity gangster.
    Arakas who served time in Ireland for conspiracy to murder Hutch associate James ‘Mago’ Gately has continued to give interviews behind bars denying any involvement in serious crime.
    Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the suspected cold-blooded killer who moonlights as a fisherman.

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    Episode 608: The CAB case against Longford gangster Blondie Stokes

    Episode 608: The CAB case against Longford gangster Blondie Stokes

    A chop shop and a luxury boom boom bar formed the focus of a proceeds of crime case taken against Longford gangster Blondie Stokes.
    And now the father of seven is set to lose his home after a Judge said there was no explanation for the source of money spent on extensive renovations at the property.
    Nicola speaks to Eamon Dillon about the chop shop boss that has come a cropper.

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    • 23 min
    Episode 607: Inside the world's largest crime convention- Crime Con

    Episode 607: Inside the world's largest crime convention- Crime Con

    Crime World Producer Clodagh Meaney has just returned from the world’s biggest criminal get-together in Nashville in the US where she found someone with a story to tell everywhere she turned.
    Clodagh tells Nicola and Niall about her experience at Crime Con which attracted 6,000 visitors and where she found TV detectives, high profile crime victims and even a US version of our own silver fox Niall Donald.

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    • 26 min

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