In 2005, Irene White was murdered in her own kitchen in Dundalk — stabbed 34 times in an attack first mistaken for a burglary gone wrong. It would take 14 years, two confessions, and a phone call from Australia to uncover the truth: this wasn’t random. It was a contract killing. Doorman Anthony Lambe and security firm owner Niall Power are both serving life sentences — but the man they say ordered Irene’s death has never been charged. This is the story of the Ice House murder, one of Ireland’s most disturbing unsolved contract killings

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Cork, 1981: Nora Sheehan disappears after a night wandering her own neighbourhood, and is found six days later in a West Cork wood. Gardaí identify a suspect within days, charge him with murder — and then lose the case entirely when their key witness dies before trial. Noel Long walks free for 41 years. This episode traces the collapse of the original 1981 investigation, the DNA breakthrough that reopened it in 2021, and the 2023 trial that made it the oldest murder prosecution in Irish history — including the confession, the missing evidence, and the appeal still pending in 2026.

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In June 1973, seven-year-old John Horgan disappeared from his home in Palmerstown, Dublin. What began as a search for a missing child would end with a horrifying discovery in the attic of a neighbouring house.

The teenager responsible, Lorcan Bale, was arrested and later pleaded guilty to John’s murder, receiving a life sentence. But because there was no contested murder trial, many questions surrounding the crime were never publicly examined in the way they might have been.

The case has subsequently become associated with claims of Satanism, occult practices and a possible ritual murder. But what did the evidence actually establish? Did Lorcan Bale ever admit a Satanic motive? What do we really know about the objects found in the attic? And how much of the story comes from the original investigation — and how much emerged decades later?

In this episode of Shadows of Éire, we separate the established facts from later interpretations and revisit one of the most disturbing and unusual child murder cases in modern Irish criminal history.

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