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74 year old Winnie Lawrence pocketed more than €20,000 after making false personal injury claims but now she has gone to jail for her crimes.
Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about an investigation into an accident prone gran who slipped on a cabbage leaf and a wider gang who made more than 40 bogus claims defrauding insurance companies with a series of tumbles, crashes and falls.

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Gangsters moll Caoimhe Robinson has become the face of Kinahan money laundering after a massive investigation uncovered her role buying and selling properties in Dubai.
The widow of murdered drug dealer Michael ‘Micka’ Kelly who went on to marry Daniel Kinahan at a plush ceremony in Dubai in 2017 has become the face of a new high profile International Consortium of Investigative Journalists probe into Kinahan Cartel properties, sanctions and lifestyle in the Emirates.
Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about Robinson and her husband’s deadly drug cartel.

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Europe is in the grip of 821 serious organised crime groups with 25,000 members who between them carve up the most dangerous drug dealing, people trafficking and fraud operations on the continent.
A new Europol report delves into the make up of the groups and the threat they pose to society through corruption, violence and money laundering.
Nicola talks to Eamon Dillon and Niall Donald about Europe and its gangs.

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A Drogheda feud member, convicted of a brutal abduction and torture, has launched his rap career with a highly produced music video about crime and carnage on the streets of his home town.
Criminal Dean Thornton is hoping to find fame with his song about feuding, guns and gangster culture.

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Gangland gun victim Josh Itseli may have been killed by accident when members of his own gang rented a high powered weapon to threaten rivals.
Gardai believe that the 20 year old may have been shot after the car in which he was travelling in was rammed and the semi automatic AR15 fired.
Nicola talks to Niall Donald about the killing and the crack cocaine epidemic fuelling rivalry’s between young men.


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A portal on Dublin’s Talbot Street linked to a Snazzy Manhattan district, secrets of Las Vegas staying in Sin City and a particularly Irish sense of humour that turned the US off.
Nicola talks to Niall Donald about Dublin and a chance of stardom..

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