Episode 546: CAB win four-year long court battle against drug dealer David Waldron

It’s arguably the most controversial stage show in Irish theatre but should we be morally outraged by Rex Ryan’s production The Monk or should we simply view it as a piece of art? Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about The Monk, the play that everyone is talking about. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A man has been jailed for 15 years for helping the McCarthy-Dundon gang murder a rival in Limerick at the height of their feud nearly two decades ago. Darragh Quinlivan had lived in the US and later in Manchester in the UK in the years after the murder of Noel Campion but a cold case investigation led to his guilty pleas for weapons charges and organised crime offences. Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about Quinlivan and his long journey to the dock. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Seamus Culleton made headlines across the globe when he described the ICE detention centre he was being held in as a modern day concentration camp. But sympathy for the Kilkenny-native started to evaporate after he emerged he had been facing drugs charges when he left Ireland for the US in 2009. Niall talks to Nicola about how Seamus' publicity campaign has backfired. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sex and drug shame councillor Sean McKiernan has been disqualified from acting as a director of any company for a five-year period. The 44-year-old former Fine Gael councillor, who is in jail after pleading guilty to stealing more than €170k from a housing charity, has now been hit with the disqualification order until December 2030 in his latest fall from grace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A former UVF man who Mark ‘Hannibal’ Haddock tried to stab to death has claimed in an interview that he is a former member of the IRA. Terry Fairfield, who now runs a bar in the UK, claims he was in both organisations and is adamant that nobody suggested a conflict of interest. Nicola speaks to Steven Moore about Fairfield, his claims and the spectre of Haddock’s return to Belfast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.