Shattered Lives

Paul reports to Mick from the scene in Donabate as gardai find skeletal remains in the grim search for a missing 2 year old boy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick continues his chat with former Garda detective inspector Noel Browne. They talk about Noel’s time as the Garda liaison officer in South America and how he helped take on drugs cartels like those behind the 2023 plot to smuggle €157 million of cocaine to Ireland on the MV Matthew. That plan was foiled by the Army Ranger Wing in a dramatic operation off the south coast of Ireland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick has a fascinating in-depth interview with Noel Browne, who spent 41 years as a Garda anti-gang investigator. He tells us the deadly Hutch attack on the Regency Airport Hotel was actually a failure - and the Kinahans’ thirst for revenge over it led to their own downfall. Noel also talks to us about other criminals he has faced down in his career - including how he slapped handcuffs on John Gilligan and brought him home on an Air Corps plane to face trial for the murder of crime reporter Veronica Guerin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The pod is back after a couple of weeks off. Mick and Paul discuss the loss of their friend and colleague Mick O’Neill, and some of this week’s biggest crime stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We gain unprecedented access to the mini prison that sits beneath the country’s largest court building, and get a tour of Cloverhill prison in an exclusive podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Silenced and censored for 3 years, Ryan Casey is finally free to tell his story. He spoke exclusively to us about being labelled ‘far right,’ the horrific murder and loss of Ashling, and how he feels the justice system let him down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul discusses the resolution of a defamation case Ryan Casey, the boyfriend of Ashling Murphy took against the BBC, over criticism of his victim impact statement Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul reports from the High Court where UFC fighter Conor McGregor has appealed a decision by a jury that he assaulted Nikita Hand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul speaks about interviewing a brother of the suspect in the Annie McCarrick case who says he too is a suspect, the death of Marcea Rostas, murder of ‘handyman’ Jake Bereney, and 2 attacks on gardai. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the massive development of a search in Clondalkin for the body of long missing Annie McCarrick, and why gardai moved to arrest a man who was known to her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick talks through last week’s hush hush operation to fly Kinahan boss Sean McGovern back from Dubai to face murder and other charges in Dublin. And he discusses what this means for the Kinahan men themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick break down the case after Richard Satchwell was found guilty of the murder of his wife Tina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Listen to audio of Michael Gaine murder suspect Michael Kelley as Paul and Mick break down what he had to say, and the state of the investigation to date. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul reports on all of the evidence from the third week of the murder trial of Richard Satchwell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul reports to Mick from the second week of the trial of Richard Satchwell, who denies the March 2017 murder of his wife Tina at their home in Youghal, Co Cork. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul reports to Mick from the murder trial of Richard Satchwell, who denies murdering his wife Tina at the home they shared in Youghal, Co Cork in March 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recently retired Detective Sergeant Peter Woods, who was central to the investigation into infamous murderer Graham Dwyer reveals all about the case in an exclusive interview with Mick and Paul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the latest homicide investigations in Donegal and Cork, ‘citizen journalists’, and latest in the baffling disappearance of Michael Gaine - 4 weeks on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the ongoing case of missing farmer Michael Gaine as it enters its third week, how gardai and prison bosses are fighting back against mob using drones, the outgoing Garda commissioner and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the DPP’s decision not to charge Conor McGregor over his tweets around the Dublin riots, the overcrowding crisis in our prisons, the latest on the investigation into ‘The Family’ gang, road deaths, the army search for missing farmer Michael Gaine, and Irish scammers abroad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul goes on a solo run to inform you of the week’s crime stories. Gardai have arrested the leaders of Ireland’s biggest mob "The Family," while the mystery of a missing man in Kerry deepens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss convicted killer Dave Mahon’s acquittal of the assault of his pensioner neighbour, his claims about what really happened, the disappearance of Amy Fitzpatrick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Following the announcement by Tánaiste Simon Harris that he believes the Air Corps needs fighter jets, Mick talks to experts Kevin Phipps and Declan Daly. The pilots, who both served in the Air Corps, tell him what threats Ireland’s airspace is facing - from Russian bombers to South American drugs cartels. And they also explore what jets the Air Corps should get - and what they would cost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Warning: This episode contains content about sexual assault. In a wide ranging interview, brave Irish woman Hazel Behan tells of taking Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner to court, what she says she went through at his hands, her continued search for justice - and her incredible work advocating against gender based violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the death of a woman on board a Stena Line ferry that led to armed gardai being called, a new search for missing child Kyran Durnin and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the latest on the murder investigation into asylum seeker Quaham Babatunde on South Anne Street, guilty pleas in the MV Matthew case, and the men found guilty of the gangland killing of gunman Tristan Sherry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick and Paul meet in Stoneybatter, at the site of a stabbing incident earlier this week. They also meet to discuss the battle against misinformation and the week’s crime stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In another busy week of crime Paul and Mick discuss a homicide in Clonee, parents wearing body armour to drop kids to school, the case of missing woman Elizabeth Clarke upgraded to murder, a son of Davy Fitzgerald in court, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick and Paul discuss another busy week of crime, with new Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan taking the reins, the possibility of the Kinahans being extradited this year, and an advancing probe into Gerry Hutch and alleged corrupt cops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a special episode of Shattered Lives, Paul speaks to the devastated mother, father and sister of Joe Drennan who are outraged after criminal Kieran Fogarty was given a concurrent sentence over the hit and run that claimed his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss another busy week in crime - with Kinahan gunman Thomas ‘Nicky’ McConnell becoming the 4th person jailed over Gareth Hutch’s murder, and the son of ‘Fat’ Freddie Thompson being jailed for shooting up a car. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shattered Lives is back for 2025. In this episode Paul and Mick discuss a busy month of crime - from three murder investigations to Kinahan crime boss Liam Byrne being released and a major Garda probe into a ‘house of horrors’ in Leinster and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the year in crime. In part 3 they talk about Graham Dwyer’s failed appeal, murder of Josephine Ray, John Gilligan’s cancer denial and a massive seizure of crystal meth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss more on an extraordinary year of crime - from gangland murder of Josh Itseli to thug soldier Cathal Crotty, Ian Bailey dying, a Russian ‘agent’ in the Dail and the rise of the so called far right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick and Paul are meeting in person for a series of podcasts looking back at an unprecedented year of crime. In part 1 we look at homicides across Ireland, a year of hell for the Kinahan cartel, Gerry Hutch’s bizarre election bid, and Conor McGregor in court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick and Paul discuss the costs development in the Conor McGregor case, as well as a recent drug seizure and a murder court appearance in Wexford. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the murder of a young girl in Wexford, Gerry Hutch’s failed bid for the Dail, and the fallout of the Conor McGregor civil trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the bombshell civil case verdict in which Conor McGregor was found to have assaulted Nikita Hand in a rape at the Beacon Hotel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the final speeches from both sides in the civil assault case of UFC star Conor McGregor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss McGregor and James Lawrence’s evidence on the witness stand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the fifth day of the McGregor civil trial and how a paramedic described bruising all over Nikita Hand’s body. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss another unprecedented day in crime news with Gerry Hutch’s sensational return to Irish soil where he spoke to the waiting media about his alleged general election bid. They also discuss the arrest of a man over the long unsolved murder and disappearance of Jo Jones Dullard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode Mick and Paul discuss the fourth day of the civil sexual assault trial of UFC star Conor McGregor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the third day of the Conor McGregor sexual assault civil trial in which his barrister claimed he had sex with Nikita Hand twice and that she was “sexually excited” by it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the second day of the civil trial against Conor McGregor who is accused of sexual assault of a woman in the penthouse suite of a Dublin hotel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the first day of a civil sexual assault case against UFC star Conor McGregor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In recent days gardai seized a copy of this podcast interview with Ian Bailey as they probe what he said to us last year. Have a listen back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick and Paul discuss the bombshell arrest of veteran crime figure Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch in Lanzarote on alleged money laundering offences. They also discuss the search for missing child and suspected murder victim Kyran Durnin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul is in London for the sentencing of Kinahan cartel mobsters Liam Byrne and Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh. The pair were jailed today for their roles in a bizarre conspiracy to import firearms in an attempt to get Kavanagh a lesser sentence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul is in London for the sentencing of Kinahan cartel mobsters Liam Byrne and Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh. He joins Mick to talk through a dramatic day in court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices