Sydney-based police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon handed himself in to the authorities two days after the bloodied belongings of Australian TV star Jesse Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies were found dumped in a skip. Days later, the officer would lead police to the couple’s bodies, concealed in surfboard bags. As Australia is trying to come to terms with this horrific murders, many ask if the police force missed red flags when they hired Lamarre-Condon? Host: Denise Calnan Guest: Darragh Nolan S...
Mar 04, 2024•21 min
Rapper, music producer and business mogul, Sean 'Diddy' Combs, formerly known as Puff Daddy, was at the centre of disturbing allegations by his former girlfriend and singer Cassie. In the lawsuit, Cassie accused Diddy of rape, violent behaviour and sex trafficking during their 10-year relationship. Combs denied the allegations and just 24 hours after the initial lawsuit was filed, the pair reached an agreement but the details were not disclosed. Host; Fionnán Sheahan, Guest; Dee Molumby See omny...
Mar 03, 2024•21 min
As the 2024 Formula 1 season approaches this weekend, the dramatic sport was once again brought into disrepute, as Christian Horner, Red Bull Racing chief, and husband of Spice girl Geri Halliwell, was accused of inappropriate behaviour by a female colleague. Now cleared of any wrongdoing by his employer, many believe the full facts of what happened behind the scenes should be made public for the sport to move forward. Host: Fionnán Sheahan. Guest: Kieran Jackson See omnystudio.com/listener for ...
Feb 29, 2024•20 min
On March 8, voters will be asked to decide on two amendments to the Constitution. One looks at the definition of the family, while the other proposes removing reference to women in the home and replacing it with broader language acknowledging care provided by family members to one another. What are the ins and outs of both referendums and what is each side saying? Host: Tabitha Monahan. Guest: Kevin Doyle. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 29, 2024•23 min
Just as the RTÉ crisis seemed to be nearing its conclusion, the situation now seems as stark as ever. The broadcaster’s board has no chairperson, there are revelations about more exit payments being made since a new Director General arrived to clean up the mess and the Media Minister is locked in a fight for her own reputation. Host; Kevin Doyle, Guest; Fionnán Sheahan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 28, 2024•20 min
Declan Brady, AKA ‘Mr Nobody’, was one of hundreds in attendance at the 2016 funeral of murdered Kinahan gang criminal David Byrne. As garda intelligence officers scanned the faces of mourners, Brady stood shoulder to shoulder with the gang’s hierarchy, prompting gardaí to take an interest in the unfamiliar face. His sighting would spark a deep investigation into the life and criminal career of the cartel's logistics mastermind, who pleaded guilty to facilitating a criminal organisation in the m...
Feb 28, 2024•20 min
Beloved for his sharp sense of humour and seemingly endless energy, veteran Irish comedian Sylvester ‘Sil’ Fox has been making crowds laugh for decades. But things took a decidedly more serious turn for the entertainer in December 2018 when he was accused of sexual assault in a Dublin pub. Fox maintained his innocence and was later cleared of all wrongdoing, but the case still haunts him today. As he prepares to turn 91, Fox is still fighting for his name as he races against time in taking on Ir...
Feb 27, 2024•18 min
Davy Tweed was a popular, successful man in public, but he was also a violent domestic abuser and paedophile who preyed on his relatives. His stepdaughter Amanda Brown, who was abused by Tweed from the ages of eight to 15, has written a book, 'No Peace Until He’s Dead', explaining what the former Irish rugby player did to her and her family. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 26, 2024•24 min
In the first of May 1981, Ireland was sent into shock when an Aer Lingus flight was hijacked on its short trip from Dublin to London. The story made international headlines as a former Australian monk, Lawrence 'Larry' Downey, held the Irish plane hostage for almost eight hours. So, what were his intentions? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 25, 2024•21 min
In the early hours of Friday morning, shock news broke, that Siún Ní Raghallaigh, chair of the RTÉ board had resigned, having lost confidence from Media Minister Catherine Martin over her involvement in the golden handshake deals that are engulfing the broadcaster in scandal. But Ní Raghallaigh’s resignation statement has brought the controversy directly to the government's doorstep, having claimed that she had in fact given Catherine Martin's office, knowledge of the controversial exit deals. H...
Feb 23, 2024•13 min
The word ‘shocking’ gets bandied about loosely these days, but videos and photographs that have circulated after an X-rated Valentine's weekend event in Belfast have caused anger, scandal and even fury in some communities across Northern Ireland. Host: Fionnán Sheehan, Guests; Niamh Campbell, Kirsty Blake Knox and John Woodward, manager of the controversial Pleasure Boys See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 23, 2024•22 min
The death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny made headlines across the world, yet his demise was a cruel inevitability given the physical plight he was forced to suffer having already been poisoned. On Friday, February 16, Vladimir Putin’s most prominent political opponent died in mysterious circumstances, inside a Russian penal colony located near the Arctic Circle. With another “enemy of the state” now dead, what is next for Russia and its tyrannic leader? Host: Fionnán Sheehan. Guest...
Feb 22, 2024•23 min
A €33m crystal meth seizure linked to the Sinaloa cartel has served as a dramatic wake-up call for Ireland. What read like an RTÉ adaptation of ‘Breaking Bad’ had many people wondering why on earth is the infamous Mexican cartel doing business in Ireland? Host: Fionnán Sheahan. Guests: Ralph Riegel and Jude Webber. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 21, 2024•20 min
Struck-off ex-solicitor and property developer Michael Lynn has today been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for stealing €18m from six financial institutions. Lynn obtained multiple mortgages on the same properties in a situation where banks were unaware that other institutions were also providing finance. Host; Ellen Coyne, Guests; Shane Phelan and Rory Tevlin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 19, 2024•19 min
Heir to the brewing and banking fortune, Jennifer Guinness lived a quiet life, residing in a luxury Howth mansion. In April 1986, however, a traumatic incident catapulted her into the headlines and resulted in one of the biggest manhunts in the history of the State. Paul Williams speaks to the Indo Daily about the dramatic kidnapping and the snowball effect it would have on the Irish crime scene for decades to come. Host: Fionnán Sheahan. Guest: Paul Williams See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...
Feb 19, 2024•20 min
Pearl Gamble was 19 years old when she was murdered in January 1961. She worked as a shop assistant and had been dropped at the top of the lane close to her home, after a dance at an orange hall just outside Newry. She was brutally murdered in a nearby field in the early hours of that morning. On this week’s episode of the Indo Daily, the Belfast Telegraph’s Ciarán Dunbar investigates the crime, the murderer and last hanging in Northern Ireland. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...
Feb 18, 2024•27 min
Like so many people in Gaza right now, Isam Hamad finds himself stuck in a living nightmare. His distressing situation is further complicated by the need to care for those around him, including his son Hamza, an Irish citizen who has cerebral palsy and cannot leave Rafah without the support of his family. Isam tells the heartbreaking story of being trapped in a warzone with nowhere to go. Host: Fionnán Sheehan. Guests: Isam Hamad, Ellen Coyne and John Downing See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...
Feb 16, 2024•28 min
It was another display of frustration, annoyance, and bewilderment as TDs and Senators gathered yesterday, St Valentine's Day, to hear the latest instalment of the RTE scandal. Kevin Bakhurst revealed that RTÉ chief financial officer Breda O'Keeffe was paid €450,000 when she left the organisation. The Indo Daily hears about the latest fallout. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 15, 2024•17 min
Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley has long been established as one of Ireland's career criminals. The Dubliner has even survived five assassination attempts. Now aged in his 70s, he has been given a highly unusual punishment: a year-long barring order from Wexford town. The Indo Daily finds out more about 'The Viper' self-described "ordinary decent criminal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 15, 2024•24 min
RTÉ chiefs past and present are preparing to grace the halls of Leinster House to appear before the Oireachtas Media Committee as the public broadcaster’s crisis rumbles on. Former RTÉ chair Moya Doherty has said the board did sign off on ‘Toy Show The Musical’, which ended up losing €2.3m, while other board members say the musical was presented as a “fait accompli” and that it was never formally approved. As big questions still loom large over former chief financial officer Breda O'Keeffe's red...
Feb 13, 2024•26 min
Convicted UK sex trafficker David Archer arrived in Ireland to start a new life after serving six years of a 13-year prison sentence for operating a multimillion-euro vice ring in the UK in 2017. The Glaswegian, convicted of sexually assaulting women he trafficked as prostitutes has been described as a “serious threat to women.” Archer went underground since summer until resurfacing as a bogus tradesman in Dublin. But where is he now and why are gardaí searching for him? Host: Fionnán Sheahan. G...
Feb 13, 2024•18 min
“I certainly could find nothing that led me to believe in Ian Bailey’s guilt.” That’s according to a retired UK senior forensic officer who has investigated the murder case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Bridget Chappuis was in communication with Bailey right up to the day before he died, not with the aim of proving his innocence, but with the hope of finding the truth about one of Ireland’s most notorious unsolved murder mysteries. Host: Kevin Doyle , Guest: Bridget Chappuis See omnystudio.com/l...
Feb 12, 2024•24 min
41 years ago this week, Shergar, the world’s most famous horse was stolen and thus began one of the biggest Gardai investigations in Irish history – Who kidnapped Shergar the wonder horse? HOST: Fionnan Sheahan GUEST: Senan Molony See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 11, 2024•36 min
In 2008, Declan Ganley, an English-born businessman who had moved to Ireland as a teenager, inserted himself directly into the Irish political landscape seemingly out of nowhere. For a brief period, Ganley seemed to hold as much political swing as anyone in the country. But how did he get to that point, and what happened next? Host: Fionnán Sheahan. Guests: John Downing and John Burns. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 09, 2024•25 min
Why Kinahan cartel lieutenant Graham ‘The Wig’ Whelan and mob money-launderer Thomas Rooney are the latest organised crime figures to be caught up in a crackdown on rogue companies by Irish authorities Host: Ellen Coyne Guest: Niall Donald See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 08, 2024•19 min
Ireland has found itself as a European outlier in its broad public support for Palestine throughout the ongoing war in Gaza. But how do these acts of solidarity impact the conflict people are outraged by? Host; Tabitha Monahan; Guests; Ellen Coyne & Hugh O'Connell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 07, 2024•22 min
Conspiracy theories are nothing new. The latest one doing the rounds is that pop princess Taylor Swift - who just won 'Album of the Year' at the Grammy's - is a Pentagon “psyop plant” who will rig both the upcoming Super Bowl and US presidential election. This has led to clashes between “Swifties” and the far right. The Indo Daily explains all. Host: Ellen Coyne. Guest: Jenn Gannon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 06, 2024•22 min
He changed the celebrity public relations game, but Max Clifford was ultimately as infamous as his numerous clients were famous. In 2014, Clifford was found guilty of eight counts of indecent assault against four victims. He died in prison three years later. Host: Kevin Doyle. Guest: Sarah Caden See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 05, 2024•22 min
West Belfast rap crew Kneecap have been in the headlines from day one, but their Sundance award-winning film has caused angered in some unionist circles because of its £1.6m funding from Northern Ireland Screen and BFI. Today’s episode of The Indo Daily is brought to you by our sister podcast, The BelTel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 04, 2024•25 min
Wayne Rooney, John Terry, Ryan Giggs and Kyle Walker. What do they all have in common? Apart from being millionaire footballers who’ve scored big for club and country, they’ve all played away from home in their respective relationships. Walker, the Manchester City defender, has had major success on the pitch for his club but has been a steadier fixture on the gossip pages rather than sporting ones of late. This week he made a tearful public apology after fathering a second child with reality TV ...
Feb 02, 2024•25 min
