Real Lives Untold

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REAL LIVES UNTOLD podcast focuses on allthings crime and human interest. This podcastoffers a space for people to tell their stories, raiseawareness and help others in similar situations.Sarah & Trina O’Connor’s work and lifeexperiences ensure that this podcast iscompelling, sometimes tear jerking but also bringshope, light and laughter to those who participateand those who listen in.Sarah & Trina are both Criminologists - no relationbut relationships matter.Sarah O’Connor, a documentary maker, a veterancrime and courts reporter has covered all themajor crime stories for TV and radio for past 20years.Trina O’Connor is a working communityCriminologist who comes with 30+ years’experience of activism and collaborating withcommunity workers.Join Sarah and Trina for their all new podcastREAL LIVES UNTOLD.Subscribe here.. Follow... set alerts..
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Lee Marks on male victims of domestic abuse

Dec 12 2023 36 mins

In this episode Trina and Sarah chat to author and advocate for victims of Domestic Abuse Lee Marks. Lee talks about his own experience and his support guide for male victims of domestic abuse called “Break the Silence. He encourages more men to seek support and says officers need more training on how better to engage with male victims of domestic abuse.Anyone who has been i

Crime world's Nicola Tallant and Niall Donald

Dec 05 2023 46 mins

In this episode Trina and Sarah are joined by well known Crime journalists, editors and podcasters Nicola Tallant and Niall Donald. They chat about how they got into journalism, what attracted them to crime reporting, the dangers involved and what cases stood out for them. They talk about the success of the Crime World podcast , their live shows and Nicola's latest book Cocaine Cow

The murder of Ashling Murphy

Nov 28 2023 46 mins

This week Sarah and Trina are joined by the Deputy Editor of the Tullamore Tribune Gearoid Keegan as they examine the murder of schoolteacher and talented musician Ashling Murphy.We discuss the recent trial of Jozef Puska, his murder conviction and his life sentence.From a local journalist's perspective, Gearoid takes us through what happened on the day Ashling was attacked and kil

Philly McMahon

Nov 21 2023 60 mins

In this powerful episode we speak with Dublin GAA legend Philly McMahon about his illustrious football career from kicking a ball in Ballymun to kicking it over the bar in Croke Park. Philly talks about his work in the community motivating young adults with social problems. He tells us the story of his Dad who was shot in West Belfast during the troubles, was interned in the N

Dr Pat Leahy

Nov 14 2023 59 mins

In this episode Sarah and Trina speak with former Assistant Commissioner Dr Pat Leahy who was shortlisted for the top job as Garda Commissioner back in 2018. He has described the toughest time during his 38 years in the force as those few weeks around the Regency Hotel shootings in February 2016 which triggered the rapid escalation of the deadly Kinahan-Hutch Feud here. He is passi

John Lonergan

Nov 07 2023 43 mins

This week Sarah and Trina chat to John Lonergan or "The man who ran Mountjoy". John joined the prison service in 1968 and served as governor in the JOY or Mountjoy Prison on Dublin's Northside for 26 years, retiring in 2010. He has always argued that there is a direct link between crime and social-economic deprivation and is a believes that the only real long-term solution to pover

Anita Byrne's story of sexual abuse

Oct 31 2023 45 mins

In this episode Trina and Sarah speak with the incredibly brave Anita Byrne, a sexual abuse survivor who waived her anonymity so her attacker could be named. Her uncle, 65 yr-old Paul Farrell, from Breffni Gardens, Baldoyle in Dublin was jailed for 2 years in 2022 after he was convicted of sexually assaulting her in the early 90s starting when she was was just 12 years old, be

Familicide-the murders of Seema Banu, Asfira and Faizan

Oct 24 2023 54 mins

Three years ago this week on night of the 22nd into 23rd of October 2020, IT specialist Sameer Syed travelled to the home of his estranged wife 37 year old Seema Banu and their two children 11 year old asfira and 6 year old Faizan. It was under cover of darkness and he was dressed as a women. He murdered all three by strangling them with a ligature and then left a tap on, floo

Retired Detective Pat Marry

Oct 17 2023 56 mins

Retired Detective Inspector Pat Marry was involved in investigating some of Ireland's most high profile murders. He has written a book entitled the Making of Detective which was then adapted into a podcast series. Today he talks to Sarah and Trina about two notorious murderers, Joe O’Reilly and Colin Whelan, who callously plotted to kill their wives and went to extraordinary

Jackie Fox

Oct 10 2023 51 mins

In January 2018 twenty one year-old Nicole Fox took her own life in the family home after she suffered over three years of relentless, brutal bullying both in person and online, perpetrated by a group of young adults. In the immediate aftermath of her beloved daughter’s death Nicole’s mother Jackie started to campaign for the anti-harassment laws here to be updated to incl