Rival gang members in Daniels and Lyons feud separated in Spanish prison

A prosecution barrister has told a jury that the two complainants in the case against Jeffrey Donaldson had ‘No reason to lie’. But Jeffrey Donaldson’s barrister has told the jury to look at evidence ‘dispassionately’, and that “When all is said and done, it is their word against his word”. Rosemary Walsh KC, for the prosecution, told the jury in Newry Crown Court that Jeffrey Donaldson’s wife Eleanor “was aware her husband had a sexual interest in pre-pubescent girls”. The former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson is accused of rape and several counts of gross indecency and of indecent assault. The 63 year old has pleaded not guilty to the 18 alleged offences. Eleanor Donaldson, from Dublinhill Road, Dromore, Co Down, denies several charges of aiding and abetting her husband’s alleged offending.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Gucci Gang leader who threatened a woman that he would have her son raped if they didn’t pay up an alleged debt has been jailed for 10 years. Mark Salmon rose to prominence in the notorious north Dublin mob after a number of high profile members were shot dead or imprisoned. Nicola talks with Eamon Dillon about the ordinary working dad who secretly operated as a monstrous criminal thug.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gardaí investigating the disappearance and murders of Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob have begun a new search in Co Wicklow. It comes several months after gardaí carried out a search of a disused quarry in Co Wicklow in relation to the two women who disappeared in the Leinster area in the 1990s.  Nicola speaks to Eimear Rabbitt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Retired garda detective Eddie Naughton spent the last 16 years of his career working on the Sandra Collins case. He remembers all the details and who was investigated. He recalls how few days after Sandra went missing, a local plasterer called Martin Earley dropped into the garda station to inquire how the search was going. Suspicions are raised about this married man and why he’s so interested in what has happened to a woman he claims to have only met in recent weeks. There is no sign of Sandra, her family cling on to hope that she has simply moved away. But in 2010 her case is finally upgraded to a murder inquiry.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bill Kenneally, a former accountant and basketball coach from Waterford City, is one of Ireland's worst-ever sexual predators. He's also a member of the southeast's most powerful political dynasties, a collection of Fianna Fáil TDs, senators, city councillors, and mayors who served for almost sixty years, right up until 2011. His influential connections didn't stop there. As far as we know, Kenneally began his horrific campaign of sexual abuse on young boys when he was just seventeen years old. He was eventually brought to justice in 2016 when he was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. In 2023, he received another four-and-a-half-year sentence for indecent assault on five boys. For the last eight and a half years, a commission of investigation has been examining how state authorities, the Catholic clergy, politicians, sporting organisations, and others dealt with the allegations of sexual abuse made by young teenage boys against Kenneally from the 1980s onwards. The commission, chaired by Michael White, heard over five thousand pages of testimony. Their official report had, has stated how there were missed opportunities and a clear and serious dereliction of duty by gardai, even by the standards of the late '80s. Today, Jenny Friel speaks to sexual abuse survivor Jason Clancy, who along with five of his childhood friends and fellow survivors, Kevin Keating, Gerry Mullane, Barry Murphy, Colin Power, and Paul Walsh, went public in their efforts to get the full truth about Kenneally's heinous crimes and why it took so long to get him stopped. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.