For as long as anyone can remember, society balked at the subject of UFOs as being for people who wore ‘tinfoil hats’.
IT may be the biggest cocaine seizure in the history of the Irish State – but the record-breaking 2.2 tons haul is only a drop in the ocean for Colombia’s infamous Clan Del Golfo.
An American army veteran has described in detail coming across a ‘hovering monolithic slab’ in an underground facility at an army base, the discovery of which allegedly led to an assassination attempt and terrifying reprisals against his family.
THE sister of cold case killer Noel Long has said that she had feared her twisted brother “since the age of six” and admitted that she shed tears for the families of his victims.
THE ISPCA has said it did not support a decision by Cork County Council to withdraw a closure notice issued to a Department of Agriculture Veterinary Inspector who was accused of running an illegal puppy farm.
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Noah Donohoe snuck out of his Belfast home at 3.30am on the day he would disappear and returned almost 35 minutes later after an unexplained and secret trip revealed today for the first time.
A founder member of the DUP who also served in the Northern Ireland Assembly allowed his car to be used in the murder of innocent Catholic publican Patsy Kelly, the Sunday Worldhas been told.
Daniel Kinahan made a down payment of €100,000 to violent enforcer Gerard Mackin for the life of Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch, promising him ten times that when he carries out the hit.
Former LVF crime lords Drew and Billy King are high-ranking members of the Mid-Ulster killer gang known as ‘The Firm’, a source has told the Sunday World.
A taxi driver is suspected of supplying the deadly drugs which snatched the lives of tragic twins Claire and Stephen O’Neill.
The home of drugs boss Brian Mahony was stripped of furniture and lay empty this weekend after a court recently ruled it can be sold off by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) following a lengthy legal battle.
Arms folded and eyes smiling, I look completely at ease commanding a boardroom, but there’s one major issue with the photo that’s flashing up on the computer screen before me — I am completely naked.
On February 6, 2016, less than 24 hours after the Regency Hotel attack had rocked the foundations of the Irish underworld, I answered a ringing phone on the Sunday World news desk to be greeted by a gruff northern accent. “I want to speak with …
Underworld banker Patrick Lawlor poses as a homeless beggar in the back garden of his plush Dublin house and smirks for the camera.
The Kinahan organisation has been financially pulverised after a raid on properties connected to money launderer Johnny Morrissey uncovered what police believe to be the mob’s internal accounts including, payroll, lists of assets, associated …
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.
A Fine Gael politician who received over €60,000 in income and expenses last year and has been on three foreign holidays this year, has also been receiving the taxpayer-funded Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) for his two bedroom south Dublin …
A convicted paedophile who has gone on the run a number of times has said he will never visit his girlfriend’s family home in Leitrim again following protests from neighbours this week.
Disgraced former playboy Jim Mansfield Jnr’s ‘annus horribilis’ has gone from bad to worse after the former millionaire was forced to drop a five-year legal case against the
Elusive criminal George ‘The Penguin’ Mitchell has been left devastated after the death of his beloved sister Margaret.
The tall, handsome Estonian with the blond hair and tanned skin walked confidently through the baggage hall in Dublin Airport and headed for the belt where luggage from the Alicante flight was beginning to emerge.
Andre Shoukri is a man on the edge.
Loyalist killer Michael Stone and IRA hunger strike hero Bobby Sands played football together as boys, the Sunday World has learned.
CAB target Christopher ‘Git’ Waldron bought suits for a number of mourners and carried the coffin at the funeral of gangland feud victim James ‘Whela’ Whelan.
A Derry woman who was sent “obscene” messages has won a £20,000 sexual harassment case against her former employer Morelli Ice Cream Ltd.
Murder accused Sean McGovern is facing the ultimate double jeopardy with an internal probe in the paranoid Kinahan organisation focusing on the inner circle of top associates.
Investigations Editor Nicola Tallant traces the rise and fall of the notorious crime boss as she sits in a UK court hearing details of his multi-million euro drug trafficking operation.
Official figures claim there are currently 166 inmates from 14 criminal gangs jailed in prisons across the Republic of Ireland.
This is the former MMA fighter who has been jailed for almost four years after being caught with three fully-loaded handguns believed to have been trafficked into Ireland from Spain by John Gilligan's gang.
By now the Rathkeale Rovers and more specifically The Dead Zone Gang were the target of law enforcement all over the world. Europol had set up Operation Oakleaf to co-ordinate the response in Europe.
The Dead Zoo is the name the famous Dublin 'wits' came up with for the Natural History Museum in the capital.
Drugs boss Liam Byrne has fled his Birmingham bolthole after his brother-in-law Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh received a 21-year jail term for his role at the top of the Kinahan mafia.
A young mobster has already been anointed to take the place of the year's first gangland murder victim as tensions on the capital's northside remain on a knife edge this weekend.
A man has revealed how he was trafficked to Northern Ireland by an international crime gang as a slave, forcibly injected with heroin and forced to sell it on the streets of Belfast.
Caged 'Godfather' Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh is suspected of involvement in a total of SEVEN Kinahan Cartel murders including two of his own cousins, the Sunday World can reveal.
Evil child sex predator Timmy Duggan organised bouncy castle parties for kids - at which he photographed young girls and later shared their images on social media.
They are the two women with the most to lose with their crime lord husbands listed numbers One and Two in an enormous drugs importation ring facing sentence this week.
Multi-millionaire Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov has joined Russian forces in Kyiv and vowed to win within 48 hours.
Cartel boss Daniel Kinahan has befriended a member of a royal family in the UAE as he desperately tries to avoid extradition to Ireland to face justice.
This is the jailed gangland arsonist at the centre of a major probe into claims of an 'inappropriate relationship' with a female officer in a Dublin jail.
More than €200,000 deposited by desperate homeowners to a business account controlled by Catriona Carey was allegedly spent on personal items and services, RTÉ Investigates reported tonight.
Seven men with links to the Kinahan cartel are now behind bars for plots to kill Hutch associate James ‘Mago’ Gately following the jailing of Douglas Glynn this week.
Cocaine-laden submarines and sound-proofed torture chambers show drug cartel madness has landed on our shores from South America.
At least three innocent women have been forced to flee their homes in north Dublin as a violent feud continues to spiral out of control, leading to fears that another 'Keane Mulready Woods' situation will unfold.
For those who knew him, it was obvious from a young age that Freddie Thompson was intent on making his mark on this world — and it was never going to be pretty.
Sunday World's award-winning Crime World podcast this week investigates one of the most bloody 24 hours in Ulster's troubled past.
UVF serial killer John Somerville shot Miami Showband singer Fran O'Toole 22 times in the face.
At the height of its power the super cartel that included Daniel Kinahan's mob was estimated to have imported a staggering €23 billion worth of cocaine into Europe.
