The Indo Daily

As criminal underworld nicknames go, ‘The Milkman’ certainly stands out.
The moniker may conjure cartoonish imagery, but the reality was quite simple – Brian Brendan Wright always delivered.
Having swapped out Cork for London at the age of 12, Wright grew up in a working-class Irish community before carving out a distinctive personality for himself.
In time, he would boast quite the collection of acquaintances, rubbing shoulders with celebrity names like Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood and Michael Caine, while also emerging as a well-respected “gentleman gangster” in the criminal underworld.
And so it was that when a suspicious yacht anchored in Cobh, Co Cork, on a stormy September night in 1996, investigators eventually found themselves on the trail of The Milkman.
On this episode of The Indo Daily, host Kevin Doyle is joined by Irish Independent southern correspondent Ralph Riegel to look at how an Irish expat built a global drugs empire and how it all came spilling down around him.
The Indo Daily is part of the Trust Project. You can see our ethics policies at independent.ie/ourjournalism
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode is brought to you by our sister podcast Money Talks. New episodes land every Wednesday.
Regular listeners to Money Talks will know that the show has always focused on the personal side of personal finance. Now we’re really putting our money where our mouth is with our new Money Makeover series.
Financial expert Cian Carolan joins Katie Byrne to apply the actionable advice from Money Talks to real-life circumstances faced by our listeners.
On this episode, he focuses on a couple with very different saving styles – and a looming time crisis on their pension pot.
Host: Katie Byrne | Guest: Cian Carolan
The content of this podcast is for information purposes and does not constitute investment advice or recommendation of any investment product.


We want to earn your trust and are members of the Trust Project. See our ethics policies at independent.ie/ourjournalism
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Five teenagers dead, three sisters and a seven-year-old boy seriously injured, and a wave of public outrage in the wake of the horrific wrong-way crash on the M9 motorway last weekend.
In the days since, the tragedy has sparked a huge amount of anger and debate around youth crime, garda powers, social media and even the role of parents.
Has this incident exposed a much bigger problem in Irish society?
And are we witnessing an unprecedented social reckoning unfold?
On this Extra episode of The Indo Daily, host Fionnán Sheahan is joined by Kevin Doyle, executive editor with the Irish Independent and group head of news at Mediahuis Ireland, to examine the public, police and political reaction to a story that continues to dominate the news agenda.
The Indo Daily is part of the Trust Project. You can see our ethics policies at independent.ie/ourjournalism
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Sand and Sage motel in Odessa, Texas was the kind of rough outpost that attracted lonesome drifters and hard drinkers.
In other words, if you were of a sensitive disposition or simply happened to wander off the beaten track, it was probably best if you found somewhere else to bed down for the night.
By the early 1980s, Odessa was regarded as the murder capital of the United States. And so, the discovery of a body, bound and beaten, in a blood-soaked room at the Sand and Sage wasn’t all that shocking to the local authorities.
However, there was one piece that didn’t fit. The victim - Father Patrick Ryan.
One man would answer for this brutal crime. The wrong man.
On this episode of The Indo Daily, host Fionnán Sheahan is joined by Allison Clayton, deputy director of the Innocence Project of Texas, and by Deborah Esqeunazi, director of the documentary Night in West Texas, to look at a vicious murder of an Irish priest, a miscarriage of justice and a cold case that keeps raising questions.
This episode was first released in April 2026
The Indo Daily is part of the Trust Project. You can see our ethics policies at independent.ie/ourjournalism
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was supposed to be an oral record of the Troubles, made by those who were there.
Initially, the ‘Boston Tapes’ project seemed like a good idea, albeit one which would unavoidably include descriptions of violence and terror.
The concept was simple – former paramilitaries would be interviewed; the tapes would then be kept in storage, and their stories only revealed after the interviewees' deaths.
However, it became clear that the scheme was flawed and that the recordings were not as secret as participants had assumed.
Earlier this year, the Belfast Telegraph revealed that the Boston College tapes archive has been formally closed - and will remain shut for 75 years from when it was first created.
On this episode, host Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Belfast Telegraph reporter, Andrew Madden, to look at what went wrong with the project and why the records have been sealed.
This episode is brought to you by our sister podcast The BelTel and was first released in April 2026.
The Indo Daily is part of the Trust Project. You can see our ethics policies at independent.ie/ourjournalism
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.