21 - Veronica Guerin: Gangland Murder of the Media (Part 1)
Mens Rea: A true crime podcast
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🗓️ 5 August 2018
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the mens rea podcast and this is the story of Veronica Garen part one. Oh, Ireland was relatively crime-free up until the troubles began in about 1970. |
| 0:48.0 | That's when the paramilitary groups armed themselves in order to meet their political ends in the North and the Republic. |
| 0:56.0 | Then they went about robbing banks and post offices to fund their violent campaigns. |
| 1:03.3 | Guns became something that were far more accessible for those who wanted to have them, |
| 1:08.4 | rather than just for the hunters and farmers of the countryside. |
| 1:13.7 | And petty criminals soon took a leaf from the provost books |
| 1:16.8 | and embarked on careers of armed robbery. By the 1980s though, it quickly became apparent that where the real money was was drugs. |
| 1:29.6 | And given the deep recession in progress, the depressed inner city and poor states in and around Dublin |
| 1:36.1 | were prime markets for heroin. From this, some entrepreneurial families emerged as the main players in drug dealing and supply in the country. |
| 1:48.0 | They were the first generation of Gangland players and their kids and grandkids to this day are involved in |
| 1:55.8 | organized crime and gang warfare which exploded in the mid 90s and is pervasive |
| 2:00.9 | to this day despite nearly everyone's so-called best efforts. |
| 2:07.2 | While all this was going on, the Garda Tia Kana were suffering from a lack of funding, |
| 2:12.1 | staffing, and all-round a lack of funding, staffing, and all around a lack of morale. |
| 2:16.7 | The Technical Bureau had been so neglected that by the early 90s it no longer did its work effectively. Detective units were understaffed across |
| 2:26.1 | the board and many of those who were tasked with solving crimes were limited |
| 2:31.2 | to a 9 to 5 roster. In amongst the Cahls, the Hutches, the Cunninghams, was a man |
| 2:39.3 | named John Gilligan. He had started out his criminal career as part of a gang targeting warehouses and stealing |
| 2:47.2 | goods through the 70s and 80s. But in the 90s he moved, and boy, was he good at dealing drugs? |
| 2:55.7 | In a few short years, he was heading up a multi-million pound operation, supplying |
| 3:01.1 | all sorts of illegal substances to the country. |
| 3:05.0 | He and the gang that grew up around him would be at the center of an horrific murder |
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