Shattered Lives

Paul and Michael take you on a journey through the biggest crime stories of 2025 in a series of special podcasts. This week they discuss the baffling disappearance and murder of Kerry farmer Michael Gaine, major developments in the long unsolved Annie McCarrick case, the Daniel Aruebose case in Donabate and the ongoing probe into the disappearance of Kyran Durnin. They also discuss the early release of Kinahan cartel mobster Liam Byrne, the probe into 'The Family' gang and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Michael take you on a journey through the biggest crime stories of 2025 in a series of special podcasts. This week they discuss the failed appeals of Conor McGregor, the unmasking of gang boss 'Mr Flashy,' the case against the Hennessy brothers, the Citywest riots, the Puska family trial and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Michael take you on a journey through the biggest crime stories of 2025 in a series of special podcasts. This week they cover homicides, all the developments with Gerry Hutch, the Kinahans, the release of Jonathan Dowdall and the trial of murderer Richard Satchwell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the horrific case of eight year old Malika Al Kattib, who was murdered in front of her own mother in Co Wexford. They also discuss the significant Garda progress on the investigation into the double murders of Mary Holt and Tadhg Farrell in Edenderry, as well as other stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the horrific double murders of four year old Tadhg Farrell and his grandaunt Mary Holt in Edenderry, Co Offaly. They also discuss drone incursions and Gerry Hutch facing a possible trial in Spain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick and Paul discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to throw out UFC fighter Conor McGregor’s bid to appeal a civil jury’s finding that he assaulted Nikita Hand. They also discuss other major crime stories of the week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick and Paul discuss the Monk’s plan to stand for election again. We also look at how gardai searching for teacher Enoch Burke finally got their man. And we talk about animals in the news for two very different reasons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss a horrific week of violent incidents carried out against women - from a man attempting to murder his ex partner with an axe, to a thug setting fire to a woman in Clondalkin. They discuss how the justice system has affected many victims, including Lauren Boyle Hanney, the daughter of Roddy Collins, who was viciously assaulted by a man who was this week jailed for just over 2 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Part 2 of our documentary exploring the unsolved murder of Kerry farmer Michael Gaine, Paul and Mick discover the secret woodland campsite of chief suspect Michael Kelley. Paul also speaks to the suspect and puts important questions to him, including about the last time he says he saw Mr Gaine. Locals also paid tribute to the beloved Kenmare based farmer and spoke of their hope that justice will finally be served. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this two-part documentary special, Paul and Mick travel to Kerry and the Kenmare area to investigate the baffling murder of farmer Michael Gaine. Mr Gaine’s dismembered remains were discovered in a tank on his land seven weeks after he vanished on March 20. Paul and Mick attempt to speak with American man Michael Kelley, the main suspect in the case, and also meet his solicitor, who insists he is innocent. Along the way, they speak to locals and revisit the key events that unfolded in the days leading up to Mr Gaine’s disappearance. This investigation is part of our Shattered Lives true-crime series, exploring real cases that have deeply impacted communities across Ireland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick and Paul discuss the arrest of one of Ireland’s most dangerous criminals - gang boss ‘Mr Big.’ They also discuss two murder investigations, the jailing of DJ Carey and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick and Paul are joined by reporter Danny De Vaal to discuss the trial and conviction of Terrence Crosbie and his revealing tweets. They also discuss the week’s crime stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick and Paul discuss the Citywest protests, the jailing of Puska family members and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mick dials in from Lebanon where he’s with Irish UNIFIL troops, Paul discusses the murder of a teenage Ukrainian asylum seeker in Dublin and the release of failed State witness Jonathan Dowdall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss another packed week of crime stories, from Jozef Puska’s wife facing jail, the mother of missing child Kyran Durnin returning home, to no gun murders this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss the tragic triple murder investigation in Louth, the murder suicide in Finglas, harassment of former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, the release of dangerous transgender prisoner Barbie Kardashian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul and Mick discuss 10 years since the murder that sparked the Kinahan Hutch feud, the latest on the investigation into the death of three year old child Daniel Aruebose and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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