Murdered in daylight on a Cork city street after a small-time drug deal went wrong, the case of Kieran Quilligan is a revealing insight into the darker side of life in Cork city.

Audio recording from on-street cameras of a row over €200 worth of crack cocaine,  footage tracking the victim’s evening stroll across the city centre, and a phone call to Gardaí from distressed residents who heard a man being beaten with a hammer were crucial to this case being solved.

Luke Taylor and Niall Long have been convicted of Mr Quilligan’s death – but questions remain about how a small-time drug dealer who lived at home with his parents and used his mother’s car to dispose of the body became a killer, and on whose orders.

Irish Examiner Court Reporter Liam Heylin is the guest on today’s episode of The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast.

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