Hutch organisation loyalist James ‘Mago’ Gately has been linked to the gangland assassinations of David Byrne and Eamon The Don Dunne for the first time in a courtroom.

Gately who survived a number of shooting attempts himself was formerly a member of the Kinahan Organisation but remained loyal to the Hutch side after his friend Gary Hutch was murdered.

Nicola speaks with journalist Eamon Dillon about the extraordinary information about Gately’s links to organised crime heard during a Criminal Assets Bureau proceeds of crime case against him.

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Businessman Nathan McDonnell is to appeal a decision to refuse him bail after the High Court heard his father was offering 100,000 of his life savings as an assurance.

The Kerry garden centre boss and his co-accused James Leen are both in custody charged in connection with the country’s biggest ever crystal meth haul.

Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the details which have emerged from the bail hearings about the States case against them

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He is the son of notorious gangland killer ‘Cotton Eye’ Joe Delaney and was convicted himself as an accessory to murder.

But today Scott Delaney who now goes by the name Scott Knight is urging underworld figures to unite at anti-immigration protests.

Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about how Delaney is part of a far-right ideology seeking to hijack protests like those held at Coolock.

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The leader of the DUP Jeffrey Donaldson sensationally resigned after being charged with historical sex offences.

Nicola and Niall Donald speak to Belfast Telegraph Crime Correspondent Allison Morris about the unlikely chain of events that made Good Friday an extraordinary news day.

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He is the CEO of Merchants Quay Ireland with a lengthy career behind him in the prison service making him perfectly placed to understand and empathise with the complexities of long term addiction.

Later this year the first injecting rooms will open at the Liffeyside facility and Eddie Mullins hopes the pilot programme will prove that giving addicts back some dignity will help with the public perception of them.

Nicola speaks to Eddie about his career, his experiences with the marginalised of society and his hopes for the future of addiction services.

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Tensions have continued to simmer in the feud between associates of murdered Jason Hennessy and Tristan Sherry with houses burned out and fears attacks could escalate.

The Christmas Eve massacre at a Dublin restaurant which saw Hennessy shot by Sherry who was then overcome and murdered in front of festive crowds is using up huge policing resources as rivals vow to avenge both men’s deaths.

Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the latest in the ongoing Blanchardstown feud.

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A suspected drug dealer is bundled into a car in Belfast and driven across the border to Dublin amid allegations he owes a senior criminal figure a debt.

A Garda operation saves the man before he can be tortured or killed by his kidnappers but in true gangland style, the victim refuses to make a complaint.

Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the dramatic scenes that prove that for gangland there is no border.

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Encrochat phone hack evidence has been heard for the first time in an Irish court as Senior Cartel member Peadar Keating fights extradition to the UK on firearms charges.

Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the messages the Crown say were passed between Keating and criminal kingpin Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh along with Cartel lieutenant Liam Byrne as they plotted a firearms double cross to get the boss a shorter jail term.

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A serial fraudster was employed by a family in Kildare as a live in au pair after being outed on a hit podcast and in a series of newspaper articles as a conwoman.

Samantha Cooke managed to reinvent herself as child care worker Sadie Harris and lived for six months with the family while her real identity faced the eye of a publicity storm about a series of cons across Ireland.

Nicola speaks to journalist Mark Tighe of the Sunday Independent about the extraordinary story of a woman who keeps changing her name, look and background and who is currently gone dark somewhere in Ireland.

He tells her about her latest scam which terrified a young mother returning to work and about her colourful background as an artist, a writer and even a psychotherapist.

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Two republicans Colin Duffy and Henry Fitzsimons have been acquitted of terrorism charges following a long-running trial at Belfast Crown Court. Earlier their co accused Alex McCrory was also acquitted in the M15 bugging case.

So how did their trial take ten years in the court and what is the fallout from their acquittals? Did the M15 succeed in infiltrating the New IRA while the old order was caught up in the case and on strict bail conditions or was the decade-long case a fiasco for Public Prosecution Service.

Nicola speaks to Belfast Telegraph Crime Correspondent Allison Morris about M15 bugs and the long-running case

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