Why was an Irish teenager’s body found in a bag?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On January 13 a bag containing the dismembered limbs of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods was found on a housing estate in Dublin. Keane is believed to have worked for a drugs gang in the coastal town of Drogheda, just north of Dublin, and his murder is thought to be gang-related. Two rival gangs are feuding in Drogheda over turf and the booming cocaine market. These gangs use social media to taunt each other, often with devastating results. In this episode we speak to Nicola Tallant, investigations editor of the Sunday World, who’s been following the story of Ireland’s gangs. We also talk to Joanne O’Dwyer who works in rehabilitation in Drogheda. She tells us about how the murder has affected the town. Producers: Alicia Burrell and Duncan Barber Mixed by Emma Crowe Editor: Philly Beaumont

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.2	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.7	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.5	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, why was an Irish teenager's body found in a bag?
0:25.0	I think it probably does begin with the bag in the housing estate in Koolock in North County, Dublin and the legs, arms and a pair of flip-flops peeking out of it.
0:45.0	It sounds like it belongs in Narkos.
0:48.0	A lot of what you're going to hear is pretty nasty.
0:50.0	A decapitated teenager, millions of euros worth of Coke seized in a coastal Irish town, rival
0:55.8	drug gangs fighting for the market, filming their violence, putting it out on social media,
1:00.8	goading one another.
1:03.0	Ireland's seen its fair share of violence, but what happened to Keene Mulready Woods has
1:09.2	made people there ask if narco-terrorism has now arrived in the country. It's shocked almost everybody. Even people
1:16.5	like Nicola Talent, who knows everything there is to know about drugs gangs in the country.
1:22.0	She's the investigations editor of the Sunday world, one of Ireland's most popular
1:25.9	newspapers, and she's been following this case from the day it started. January the 13th.
1:38.4	10 o'clock that night, that Monday night, there was just children playing and they came upon a sports bag and visible in it were human limbs and a pair of flip-flaps.
1:45.4	The police were called and they arrived and sure enough this was human remains that was in this
1:50.4	hold-all bag.
1:52.4	The previous evening, the Sunday, the 12th of January, there had been a
1:55.3	report from Drahada, a family had reported a 17 year old boy missing and they
2:01.4	knew he was in serious trouble when he hadn't showed up.
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