Nicola

Nicola Tallant

Nicola Tallant is a three time winner of Crime Journalist of the Year in Ireland and currently holds the title. She is Investigations Editor of the Sunday World newspaper and specialises in organised crime.

Ep 1345 - Cancer In Our communities As Young Gangsters Roam and Threaten with Impunity

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon. Nicola is Investigations Editor for The Sunday World and author of The Witness and Clash of the Clans.

Ep 1327: The Rise and Fall of Freddie Thompson

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about Freddie Thompson, one of the most feared criminals in gangland and now serving a life sentence. Nicola Tallant is Investigations Editor of The Sunday World and host of the Crime World podcast.

Ep 1321: Jim Mansfield Jr - Where It All Went Wrong For A Celtic Tiger Cub

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor for The Sunday World, talks to Eamon.

Ep 1296: Columbian Mob Boss With Links to Kinahan Cartel Caught

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about the recent arrest of Columbian drug lord, Dairo Antonio Úsuga, and Alan Wilson jailed for 10 years for his role in a murder conspiracy that led to the notorious shooting outside the Player’s Lounge pub in Dublin in 2010.

Ep 1270: Drug Cartels Cynically Groom The Young And Marginalised

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about winning the Best Podcast of the Year in the Digital Media Awards 2021 with members of The Stand Team for The Witness: In His Own Words. The podcast is the story of Joey O'Callaghan who was the youngest person in Ireland to enter the Witness Protection Programme when he gave evidence against Brian Kenny and Thoman Hinchon. Nicola talks about the impact the podcast has had on Joey and others and how drug gangs continue to groom vulnerable children as Joey once was by murderer, Brian Kenny.

Ep 1240: Limerick on Alert As the Gangsters Move Back In

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor with the Sunday World and author of The Witness and Clash of the Clans, talks to Eamon.

Ep 1234: Clash of the Clans - The Inside Story of the Kinahan - Hutch Gangland Feud

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor for the Sunday World and author of The Witness, talks to Eamon about her new book Clash of the Clans.

Ep 1205: How The Monk Was Caught

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor for the Sunday World, talks to Eamon about the pressures that saw Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch being captured and how George ‘the Penguin’ Mitchell remained neutral in the Kinahan / Hutch feud.

Ep 1181: The Monk Captured At Last - A Profile of The Legendary Dublin Criminal

Nicola Tallant, Crime Investigations Editor at the Sunday World, joins Eamon to talk about Gerry Hutch following his recent arrest and imprisonment in Spain.

Ep 1168: Crime Reporter Shot on the Streets of Amsterdam

Nicola Tallant reports on the shooting of the Dutch crime journalist Peter R de Vries.

Ep 1164: Kinahan Cartel Increasingly Powerless in Their Hometown

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor for the Sunday World, talks to Eamon.

Ep 1135: Crime Cartels Dealt a Historic Blow

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about the round-up of hundreds of criminals and the seizure of tonnes of drugs following the greatest sting in criminal history and how the FBI did it.

Ep 1127: One Boy's Journey to Hell - Joey O'Callaghan's Story

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about the new podcast The Witness: In HIs Own Words.

Ep 1104: No Pandemic Recession in Drug Trade

Nicola Tallant, Investigation Editor for The Sunday World, reports on a nation awash with drugs.

Ep 1093: Ireland Hit By Cocaine Tsunami. Arrest Warrant Issued For The Monk

Nicola Tallant, investigations editor with the Sunday World, talks to Eamon about the ever-increasing amount of cocaine arriving on European shores, and the new arrest warrant for The Monk.

Ep 1081: Jason Corbett's Family's Long Fight For Justice - Will Tom and Molly Martens Walk Free?

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor of The Sunday World and host of Crime World, talks to Eamon.

Ep 1060: The Victim – What Happens When Witness Protection Runs Out!

Nicola Tallant, investigations editor of the Sunday World, talks to Eamon about the upcoming parole hearing of gangland murderer Brian Kenny and the pitfalls of the witness protection programme in Ireland.

Ep 1020: Panorama Exposé Casts a Long Shadow Over Boxing’s Links With the Mob

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor at The Sunday World, talks to Eamon about Billy Joe Saunders' offer to arrange an interview with Daniel Kinahan.

Ep 1009: Boxing and the Kinahan Mob

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor with The Sunday World, and Chief Sports Writer with The Irish Daily Star, Kieran Cunningham, on Daniel Kinahan's links with boxing.

Ep 985: 2021 - No Happy New Year For Kinahan Cartel

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor for The Sunday World, talks to Eamon.

Ep 957: Kinahan's Gang Rule Extends Into Prisons

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor at The Sunday World, talks to Eamon.

Ep 937: Collapse of the Mansfield Empire Leads to the Special Criminal Court

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor at the Sunday World, reports.

Ep 914: The Rise and Fall of John Gilligan

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor with The Sunday World, talks to Eamon following the recent arrest of John Gilligan in the South of Spain.

Ep 909: No Justice for House of Horrors' Victim

Nicola Tallant joins Eamon to discuss the case of Cynthia Owen, sexual abuse survivor and mother of murdered infant Noleen Murphy, as well as the recent arrest in Spain of fallen crimelord, John Gilligan.

Ep 892: Crime In A Time Of Covid

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor with the Sunday World, talks to Eamon.

Ep 853: The Witness

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor with The Sunday World, talks to Eamon about her new book.

Ep 850: No Good News for the Kinahan Cartel

Nicola Tallant, investigations editor with the Sunday World, talks to Eamon about the latest Kinahan convictions, and explains the origins of the Kinahan-Hutch feud.

Ep 828: Justice Served - 40 Years for Aaron Brady

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor of The Sunday World, talks to Eamon.

Ep 805: As The Kinahan Cartel Is Brought Down it Leaves a Legacy of Fear, Hatred and Division

Nicola Tallant, investigations Editor with the Sunday World, talks to Eamon about the conviction of Bomber Kavanagh in the UK and the consequences for Daniel Kinahan.

Ep 795: More Bad News for the Kinahan Mob

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon.

Ep 772: Daniel Kinahan Hits The Big Time

Nicola Tallant, investigations editor with the Sunday World, talks to Eamon about Daniel Kinahan's increasing fame in the boxing world.

Ep 746: The Life and Death of Larry Dunne

Nicola Tallant profiles Ireland's first drug baron.

Ep 737: Daniel Kinahan Now A Leading Player In Global Boxing

Kieran Cunningham and Nicola Tallant join Eamon to discuss Daniel Kinahan's rise to the top of the professional boxing scene.

Ep 712: Crime in a Time of Covid-19

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon.

Ep 694: Death of a Gangland Hitman

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about the death of Robbie Lawlor.

Ep 681: Covid-19 Lockdown Causes Dramatic Increase In Domestic Violence

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about some hidden dangers of the coronavirus pandemic, and the slump in the market for recreational drugs.

Ep 651: CAB Takes the War on Drugs to Rural Ireland

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about a massive raid in West Cork, and surveys the changing underworld of the Costa Del Sol.

Ep 611: The drug-crime crisis – brazen killers, under resourced Gardaí, and a new cartel in Dublin

Nicola Tallant, investigations editor at the Sunday World, talks to Eamon.

Ep 606: Murder of 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods Crosses a Line

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about this 'brutal, savage, depraved' murder, a new low in drug related criminality.

Ep 590: Cartels Under Pressure; Can the Lunney case be cracked?

Nicola Tallant, investigations editor at the Sunday World, talks to Eamon.

Ep 573: Live Fast Die Young

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about the latest gangland deaths.

Ep 568: Suspects questioned over Kenny Lunney assault.

And another savage gangland assassination. Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon.

Ep 557: Dublin Jimmy – The Ugly face of border anarchy

Nicola Tallant joins Eamon to discuss the fallout from the attack on QIH executive Kevin Lunney, and the death of Cyril McGuinness.

Ep 552: The torture of Kevin Lunney: are border criminals above the law?

Nicola Tallant on the case that shocked the nation.

Ep 532: Protection at a price – how taxpayers' money ended up in criminal hands

Nicola Tallant, investigations editor with the Sunday World, tells Eamon about the protection racket scandal engulfing Dublin City Council.

Ep 527: Crime Profile – George 'The Penguin' Mitchell

Nicola Tallant tells Eamon about one of Ireland's shrewdest and most enduring criminals.

Ep 491: The Downfall of 'Bomber' Kavanagh and death in Drogheda

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about the latest events in Ireland's drug-fuelled gangland feuds.

Ep 462: Is time up for the Kinahan Cartel?

Nicola Tallant on this week's setback for gangland's deadliest mob.

Ep 446: Cocaine - in a pub or restaurant near you

Nicola Tallant tells Eamon that 80% of public places tested positive for 'coke' in a Sunday World Investigation.

Ep 436: Ireland's Cocaine Epidemic – Who makes the money, and how much?

Nicola Tallant, investigations editor with the Sunday World, reports on Ireland's cocaine consumption.

Ep 427: Another gangland killing

Nicola Tallant reports.

Ep 424: The Gucci Gang's demise

Nicola Tallant on the violent death of the Instagram gangsters.

Ep 415: Is Kerry about to give up its darkest secret?

Eamon is joined by Nicola Tallant as the hunt narrows for the killer of 'Baby John' in the infamous Kerry Babies case.

Ep 406: Growing fears about the Drogheda gangland feud.

Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about Drogheda and the latest in the Hutch/Kinahan feud.

Ep 403: Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon about the trial of Patrick Quirke.

Found guilty of the murder of Bobby Ryan, Patrick Quirke began his life sentence this week. Nicola Tallant talks to Eamon.

Ep 394: The New IRA, who are they and what happens next?

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor of the Sunday World, talks to Eamon.

Ep 350: Regency trial collapses

Eamon is joined by Investigations Editor of the Sunday World, Nicola Tallant, to discuss collapse of the trial on Wednesday of Patrick Hutch for the Regency Hotel murder of David Byrne.

Ep 334: The Regency attack - 3 years on

Eamon is joined by Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor of the Sunday World, three years to the day after the Regency hotel attack which Dublin gangland's most dangerous feud.

Ep 325: No sign of peace in drug related killings

Eamon is joined by Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor with the Sunday World, for the latest on Dublin's gangland, and how the cocaine trade is driving crime across the nation.

Ep 301: CAB hits its targets

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor of the Sunday World, joins Eamon to discuss the work of the Criminal Assets Bureau, what it does, who it goes after, and how.

Ep 279: Hitmen for hire

Nicola Tallant of the Sunday World joins Eamon to discuss hitmen for hire in Dublin's gangland, and how feuds exist in the online world too.

Ep 271: Nicola Tallant

The latest from Dublin's gangland, plus the murder of Paul Wells by Kenneth O'Brien with Nicola Tallant of the Sunday World.

Ep 260: Femmes Fatales

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor with the Sunday World, joins Eamon to discuss some of the most high profile crimes in Irish history committed by women.

Ep 256: Justice for Duck Egg

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor with the Sunday World, joins Eamon to discuss the latest from Dublin's gangland.

Ep 230: CAB's crusade against the Kinahan cartel

Eamon is joined by Nicola Tallant, investigations editor of the Sunday World, to discuss how the Criminal Assets Bureau are targetting the Kinahan crime gang, and round up the latest from the Dublin underworld.

Ep 219: Fat Freddie gets life

Eamon is joined by Nicola Tallant, investigations editor of the Sunday World, to discuss the conviction of 'Fat Freddie Thompson', and the latest from the Dublin gangland situation.

Ep 184: Gary Hutch killer convicted

Eamon is joined by Investigations Editor of the Sunday World, Nicola Tallant, to discuss the conviction in Spain of James Quinn for the murder of Gary Hutch. Plus the recent Bray shooting, Pete Taylor's connection to it, and more.

Ep 161: Nicola Tallant on a new generation of Limerick gangs

Eamon is joined in studio by Nicola Tallant to discuss the new generation of criminal gangs in Limerick who threaten the success of the regeneration project in the city.

Ep 122: The Dapper Don is finished

Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor with the Sunday World, with the latest on the Hutch - Kinahan feud, more murders, their middle-eastern difficulties, and more.

Ep 107: Katy French – Death and drugs, then and now

Its 10 years since model Katy French fell victim to cocaine and the Celtic Tiger party. Eamon is joined by Investigations Editor with the Sunday World, Nicola Tallant, to discuss what a grip the drug had on society back then, how it has made millions for the drug gangs, and where we are today as the deadly feud between the Hutch & Kinahan continues.

Ep 76: Nicola Tallant on the Brutal Murder of a Mother of Six

On August 16, Antoinette Corbally was machine gunned down outside the Ballymun house where she was staying. Nicola Tallant, investigations editor at the Sunday World, joins Eamon to talk about this crime and the latest in the Kinahan-Hutch Feud.

Ep 37: Nicola Tallant, Sunday World Investigations Editor, on the Kinahan-Hutch Feud

Sunday World Investigations Editor, Nicola Tallant, joins Eamon to talk about working as a crime reporter during the deadliest criminal feud in Irish history.