Nicola Tallant: "Those Middle Class Cocaine Users Don't Get To Turn A Blind Eye"
What A Woman PodcastShow Notes
Our guest today on What A Woman Podcast is the phenomenal Nicola Tallant, Ireland’s leading Organised Crime Journalist, the Investigations Editor for the Sunday World and three time winner of Crime Journalist of The Year of which she currently holds the title. Nicola is also the presenter of one of Ireland’s most popular podcasts: Crime World, about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld. She is also a successful author of books including: 'The Witness’ which was turned into a hit podcast; and her most recent release: “Cocaine Cowboys, The Deadly Rise of Ireland’s Drug Lords’ which is being adapted to a hit show that Nicola is touring across the country.
We talk about:
- Why we’re all obsessed with crime shows
- Why cocaine is such a prolific problem in Ireland
- How middle class buyers are fuelling cocaine trade
- Where Nicola's interest in organised crime started
- Does her job ever make Nicola fearful
- Being a female journalised in a male-dominated arena
- What it’s like stalking out criminals
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