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Mar 2025
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Episode 934: Shady businessman 'The Vet'...

Sunday World
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A Del Boy type character nicknamed ‘The Vet’ is at the centre a recent €10 million seizure of cocaine in Kilkenny.


Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the 60-year-old caught with the cocaine in a specially adapted van and his intriguing background in the world of crime.


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