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The Troubles’ most notorious and sinister figure Freddie Scappaticci was the ‘jewel in the crown’ of a British infiltration system designed to cause mayhem and chaos in the IRA’s military operations from the late 1970s through to his eventual exposure in 2003.

Codenamed Stakeknife, he headed the IRA’s secretive Internal Security Unit – also known as the ‘Nutting Squad’.

His former comrades reveal extraordinary details about Scappatic...

Journalist Chris Moore spent his career digging into the details of a story he first came across as a young BBC journalist in the 1980s.

This is an extract from his new book Kincora: Britain’s Shame – a culmination of a decades-long investigation which weaves a tangled web of sexual abuse in a boys' home in Belfast with the murky workings of MI5 and the secret activities of Lord Henry Mountbatten.

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Austin Stack was just 14 when his dad was shot and left with horrific life altering injuries at the hands of an IRA assassin. He survived for 18 months before dying from complications.

Now 42 years on, Austin says he would like to look his father’s killers in the eye and tell them how his death has affected him.

Here is an extract from his book Justice for My Father, which is published by Bonnier and available bookshops and audio str...

When Robbie Lawlor was murdered outside a house in the Ardoyne area of Belfast in April 2020, reporters were left with more questions than answers.

What was one of Ireland's most feared criminals doing in the north? Why had he crossed the border? Who had the audacity to arrange for him to be shot while up there?

Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in November 2024.

The murder of a young mum during a bloody stabbing at her home in Co Louth. A mystery deepens as the months become years and nobody is caught for Irene White’s murder.

Finally, two confessions lead gardaí to the door of another person of interest, but still her husband Alan denies anything to do with the death of his former wife.

This is an extract from The Ice House Murder: The Killing of Irene White by Mediahuis journalist ...

A forensic scientist and an investigative journalist today call for a search of an underground cave near suspected serial killer Larry Murphy’s old hunting ground in rural Wicklow.

David Kenny and Geraldine Niland have spent years seeking answers to Murphy's secret life and to where Ireland’s missing women may be.

They tell Nicola about a discovery of an ancient storage souterrain which has raised the heckles of cadaver dogs, scienti...

Former soldier Keith Byrne has been jailed in Spain for 15 years for the murder of his girlfriend Kirsty Ward at a resort in Salou two years ago.

Byrne tried to claim Kirsty had taken her own life and even accused her of irrational behaviour, but a court ruled that he was the violent bully who had strangled her in a fit of jealousy after she tried to split from him.

Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the case.

She was a gangsters moll who faced a crises when she tried to break up with her boyfriend, the notorious Brian Rattigan.

But years on Natasha McEnroe has proven how the effects of gangland war and drug fuelled shootings can leave scars on those on the periphery of the violence as well as those intimately involved in it.

Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about McEnroe and her extraordinary links to one of gangland’s most notorious...

Michael Hodgins became one of Ireland’s most notorious teenage criminals when he gunned down an innocent groundskeeper at Slane Castle in 1989.

But 36 years on, Hodgins is again back before the courts after pleading guilty to money laundering after more than €322k in cash was seized from his home.

Niall speaks to Eimear Rabbitt about Hodgins and his long history of criminality.

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He is one of Scotland’s most notorious criminals who remains a powerful force in the underworld despite serving time behind bars.

So who is Mark Richardson and what alliances has he forged in his ambitious drive to control the drug market in his hometown.

Nicola speaks with Richard Elias about Richardson and his life and crimes.

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