Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords - Nicola Tallant

How did the Kinahan organized crime group rise to the top of cocaine trafficking in Europe?
In this episode, Mark sits down with investigative journalist and author Nicola Tallant to discuss her book ‘Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords’.
At the end of the 90s, Ireland was booming, the ‘Celtic Tiger’ had risen. People had more money to spend on leisure activities, and on drugs.
In steps a man from a comfortable middle-class background in Ireland, the well-educated and well-mannered, Christopher Kinahan Snr, who alongside his two sons Daniel Kinahan and Christopher Jnr, created the Kinahan Cartel.
Along with the cocaine came money, extreme violence and assassinations. The most famous of these was the Hutch-Kinahan feud, which saw criminal groups fighting one another across Europe.
Eventually, the Kinahan Cartel would join with criminal organizations from across Europe to create what Europol called the ‘European Super Cartel’, controlling the distribution of cocaine across the continent.
In 2022, the Kinahan Cartel, alongside its leading members, were sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) over alleged links to a money laundering network run by Hezbollah.
Nicola Tallant has been reporting and investigating organized crime in Ireland for three decades. She has written several books about the topic and has a successful podcast called ‘Crime World’.
In this episode, Mark talks to Nicola about her new book ‘Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords’.
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[@polly6336]

This is a fascinating video. I watch Crime World podcasts, but hadn't heard Nicola talking in depth like this. I think I'm convinced to buy her book at long last! She's right, the way crime is covered in Ireland is very different to the UK. The smallest stories can take on a life of their own, and the intricacy of the gangs/ organised crime is fascinating. I hope Nicola keeps safe. She does a risky job but it's an important job.

[@sternaalbifrons9025]

The rigid boxed Dutch mind is absolutely incapable of giving genuine credence to the kind of deep understanding that Nicola has. 'So condecending ( and so so ignorant)

[@polly6336]

He's South African

[@sternaalbifrons9025]

@@polly6336 Yes, South African of Dutch descent.