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Mar 2025
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Episode 906: Man found guilty of murderi...

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Brian McHugh has been found guilty of killing Lisa Thompson at her home in Ballymun in 2022, a gangland killer has his trial for threatening to kill a prison officer moved due to fears he’ll be shot dead by the Hutch Organised Crime Group, and the judge in the trial of Nikita Burns and Alan Vial has begun delivering his charge to the jury.


Eimear Rabbitte joins Clodagh Meaney to discuss the week that was.




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