Gangland hard man Derek ‘Bottler’ Devoy claimed that a breakdown followed the guilt he felt at the murder of his sister Antoinnette and led him to a lethal grapple with police while he was armed with a submachine gun and a grenade.

But now, the volatile criminal has become a peacemaking king of his wing in Portlaoise prison where a piece of leaked mobile phone footage has shown him intervening in a row.

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The Kinahan Organised Crime Group and their links to Iran has been detailed in a highbrow terrorism report released by a top US government think tank.

The group are detailed by the Combating Terrorism Centre as being a proxy group used by the regime to commit murder and fund terrorism through drug trafficking.

Nicola speaks to Niall Donald as dark clouds loom over the cartel.

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A father believed to have murdered his 12-year-old son before taking his own life had been previously accused of threatening to kill the boy. Oisin O’Reilly and his father Wayne were found dead at two different addresses in West Dublin on Thursday.

Niall speaks to Eimear Rabbitt about the investigation into the murder-suicide and its impact on the local community.

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An arson attack on a home sees an innocent family miraculously escape with their lives as a feud plays out on social media.

Nicola speaks with Patrick O’Connell murder and attacks in Ireland’s communities.

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An innocuous house in Youghal leads the Criminal Assets Bureau into a tangled web of romance fraud, criminality, and links to the Sinaloa Cartel.

Today, Nicola speaks with Eamon Dillon about the Kerry man linked to the European head of Mexico's biggest cartel.

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Scissor sister Charlotte Mulhall is due to get a release date this year when she finally finishes a life sentenced for murdering her mother’s partner and dismembering his body.

So, what lies in store for Ireland’s most famous prisoner and how has she finished a life sentence aged just 39?

Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about Mulhall and her time behind bars.

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A brutal hostage scenario in an Irish prison is averted when skilled prison officers stand down the threat.

Nicola talks with Crime World's Patrick O’Connell about the incident.

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The widow of gangland banker ‘Fat’ Andy Connors has posed at his lavish grave on the anniversary of his murder.

Ann Connors has faced trouble with the Criminal Assets Bureau, claimed false PUP payments during Covid and once turned her home into an illegal rental site to make ends meet.

But posing in a fur coat beside the grave that remembers the leader of a home robbery gang as 'Big Fat Rich Andy Connors', she smiles for the cameras.

Nicola talks with Niall Donald about the widow Connors and her trouble with the law.

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Three Galway brothers are named as part of a major drug network supplying the tourism heart of Ireland as details of their cruel use of free slave labor emerges.

Today Nicola talks to Eamon Dillon about Gary Ward and his band of brothers.

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He was an unknown when he was picked up by gardaí with a large heroin consignment back in 2001, but in the past two decades Brian Grendon has really been placed on the gangland map.

The head of the group known as 'The Family' is now facing sentence on tax offences and a file is currently with the Director of Public Prosecutions for consideration of serious gangland charges.

Today, Nicola and Niall are talking about Grendon and his rise to fame.

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He' s the teacher who has spent more than 550 days in prison in protest against a court order.

But is Enoch Burke a saint or a sinner, and who are his contemporaries who have done porridge for their beliefs?

Today, on Nicola's first day back after a lengthy hiatus, she speaks with Niall Donald about Enoch and what happens next.

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Katie Simpson, a talented and fearless young horsewoman is pulled into Jonathan Creswell’s orbit as a young child, suffering repeated physical and mental abuse at the hands of her sister's partner. By the time she turns 21, she is fighting to retain her independence. Her refusal to be cowed by Creswell's cruelty spurs his anger and control to new levels.

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After a prison sentence for domestic abuse, Jonathan Creswell continues to establish a 'cult-like' unit of women around himself, using them for domestic, equestrian, and financial support while maintaining a public facade of charm for wealthy parents.

The episode climaxes with Creswell moving his group, including pregnant Christina Simpson and young Katie Simpson, into his biological father Herbie Lusby's property in Donegal, where he continued his pattern of abuse, sexual harassment, and financial exploitation.

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Episode three of Groomed examines origins of Jonathan Creswell, and the young woman who would become one of his primary victims: Christina Simpson. Creswell, the lovechild of a wealthy farmer and a teenager, was a "golden child" in the equestrian world, who began a relationship with 15-year-old Christina after joining Darton Ree Stables, pulling her, along with former girlfriend Jill Robinson, into his dangerous orbit.

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Groomed is the disturbing story of Katie Simpson, a talented young horsewoman who tragically died after being beaten and strangled by her sister's partner, Jonathan Creswell.

In this episode, we see how Creswell, an ambitious and cocky jockey and horse-trainer, had established a pattern of emotionally abusive and controlling relationships with women in the equestrian world, including former girlfriend Jill Robinson and world-class showjumper Abigail Lyle.

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