Pirate Predator: Trailer
Pirate Predator
RTÉ Documentary on One
4.4 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Publishing weekly from May 11th 2026, Pirate Predator is a new series from RTÉ telling the definitive story of Eamon Cooke, a man of many faces who, on one hand, became a cult like figure - filling a void for disillusioned youth through Radio Dublin in the 1970s and 1980s - while on the other became one of Ireland's most prolific child sexual abusers.
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Pirate Predator is hosted by Peter Mulryan. The series is written, recorded and produced by Peter Mulryan, Nicoline Greer, Shauna McGreevy and Liam O'Brien. Original music soundtrack is composed and performed by Alma Kelliher with Ste Carolan on guitars. Sound design is by Damian Chennells. Audio Product Support is by Nigel Wheatley and Áine McManus. Design and creatives by Sorcha Kelly and Mark Hennessy. Marketing by Christopher Hayes, Maria Buckley and Hilary O'Callaghan. Promos by Liz Ivory. Publicity by Kate Smyth. Additional online editorial content by Anna Joyce.
Previous RTÉ Documentary On One series include First Conviction, Stolen Sister, Where is Jón?, The Real Carrie Jade, Runaway Joe, Finding Samantha, First Consignment, GunPlot, Tiger Roll and The Nobody Zone.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Radio Dublin on 253 meters medium wave. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the voice of Aymn Cook. |
| 0:08.0 | Time-band time check now is at 1.32. 2 minutes after half passed to one. |
| 0:13.0 | A cult-like figure in what was one of Ireland's coolest underground scenes until the late 1980s. |
| 0:20.0 | I actually found A.m. Cook to be like a cat. underground scenes until the late 1980s. |
| 0:27.4 | I actually found A.man Cook to be like a character from a Batman movie. |
| 0:33.6 | He was the captain running Ireland's most successful pirate radio station. |
| 0:37.9 | The one thing about Aeman Cook, he wasn't a very hygienic person. |
| 0:41.9 | He always looked scruffy as if he'd just come out of a tunnel. |
| 0:46.3 | But behind closed doors, what was Aiman Cook capable of? |
| 0:50.2 | That's what we always thought, that he murdered Hylina, you know? |
| 0:55.4 | You're kind of conscious at all times that the back of your head that this man who found his wife dead from electrocution is a quality electrician. |
| 1:00.2 | I'm Peter Mulrion and this is a story I've waited over 20 years to tell. |
| 1:05.7 | Yes, they were the allegations laid down against me personally. |
| 1:11.8 | Of a man who prayed on those around him and used his power to corrupt the most innocent. |
| 1:18.1 | The children were allowed into this radio station here and were indecently molested. |
| 1:24.9 | That was the actual allegation. |
| 1:27.1 | A predator hiding in plain sight. |
| 1:30.3 | And that's the first time that the hands went up under my dress on my sleigh. |
| 1:37.3 | But I have a vivid memory of going in on my communion dress and being abused in my communion dress. |
| 1:43.5 | For almost half a century, |
| 1:45.7 | Eamon Cook threatened, abused, intimidated, |
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