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Kinahans Downfall

They Murdered Our Dad | 11

Kinahans Downfall

Nicola Bardon

Tyson Fury, Gerry Hutch, True Crime, The Regency Trial, The Monk, Dubai, Mtk, The Kinahans, Society & Culture, Regency Podcast, Daniel Kinahan, News, The Kinahan Cartel, Christy Kinahan

4.8702 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

THE family of Noel Kirwan has never spoken publicly about his life, and his murder at the hands of the Kinahan Cartel.

Until now.


Donna and Kristopher Kirwan take listeners back to a time before Dublin's north inner city was torn apart by a gang war.


When their dad, known as Duck Egg, fought to keep the heroin dealers away.

When the community was united, no matter what was thrown at them.


Discussing the murder which destroyed their lives, a murder which would have grave implications for the Kinahan OCG, they remember their own fight for survival.

And how, incredibly, it only got worse when the Cartel came at their family again.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

In 1992, Frank McCann killed his wife Esther and daughter Jessica

0:05.0

because he feared a dark secret was about to come out.

0:08.5

Now the former swim coach is back looking for parole

0:10.8

despite never acknowledging his brutal crimes.

0:14.1

The Irish Sun's Nobody Heard Them Cry podcast

0:16.3

is the story of Esther and Jessica,

0:18.4

the man who killed them,

0:19.9

and the two families desperate to keep him in jail for life.

0:23.8

Download, nobody heard them cry today.

0:27.4

Warning, the following episode contains references to suicide.

0:32.9

He was a great storyteller.

0:34.9

I think that's where I heard from.

0:36.8

He loved, and he'd repeat himself.

0:38.2

Like, I'd tell him a story.

0:39.3

I'd tell him something that's happening. And that night he'd ring me and say, come here, wait and I tell you what's that to happen. And I'd say, I'm at the telling you not to tell anyone that. He'd say, was that you that told me that story? Noel Kierwin was a townie, The North Inner City dub

0:54.1

Who moved to the suburbs

0:55.8

But never lost what made him tick.

0:59.2

Duck egg, granddad, community man. Hopeless gossip.

1:06.3

He loved knowing everyone's business and all, and he loved helping people.

1:11.6

In the 1990s, he threw himself into Dublin's anti-drugs movement.

1:17.0

The dapper Don, Christy Kinnahen, Sr.

1:20.2

was among the early wave of Irish heroin dealers.

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