True Crime

Mens Rea: A true crime podcast

by GoLoud

Explicit True CrimeSociety & Culture

About the show

Sinead McHugh covers notorious Irish and UK crimes and stays with them through the trial, which is where a lot of crime shows lose interest.

Mens Rea is the legal principle of intent that must be proved in a number of crimes, such as murder. It means literally, "guilty mind". Mens Rea Podcast explores the most notorious crimes from Ireland and the UK and the court cases that followed. Join your host, Sinead, every fortnight when a new case is discussed.

Latest episodes

Listen Now: Lines of Enquiry

November 5, 2025 · 3 min

For fans of true crime like the loyal and dedicated listeners of Mens Rea, we want to recommend a new Irish series that I think you’ll really appreciate. It’s called Lines of Enquiry, a brand new GoLoud Original hosted by former Garda…
Bonus - Tom & Kitty Fitzgerald

August 4, 2025 · 24 min

This episode was originally published asa Patreon exclusive on 12 Jan 2020. In 2016, shocking news broke that an elderly couple were found dead in their own home in rural Co Mayo, and a younger man was found there too - badly injured. Over…
Bonus - Satanic Panic in Palmerstown

July 7, 2025 · 27 min

This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 2 December 2018 In this episode we take a look at the little-known so-called "satanic" murder of John Horgan (7) in Palmerstown, Dublin in 1973. John and his family lived in a…
Bonus - The Mysterious Death of Patrick Nugent

June 9, 2025 · 30 min

This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 6 Oct 2019 In the early hours of the 11th February, 1984, Patrick Nugent died in a car park in front of Bunratty Castle, Co Clare. There had been a party, and Patrick was…
Bonus - Tina Cahill & the death of David Walsh

May 26, 2025 · 22 min

This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 2 June 2019. This is our first bonus episode to take place outside of Ireland, but involves an Irish couple living and working in Australia. Tina Cahill and David 'Motcha'…
Bonus - Kilkenny City Cold Cases

May 12, 2025 · 28 min

This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 5 May 2019. Two women were murdered in the 1980's in Kilkenny. They were unconnected, and unsolved. It would be years before the two murders were "rediscovered" by the Garda…
Bonus - Eileen Costello O'Shaughnessy

April 21, 2025 · 21 min

This episode was initially released as a Patreon exclusive on 8th Sept 2019 In November of 1997, Eileen O'Shaughnessy went to work as normal. She drove a taxi in Galway City, and was one of the few women drivers in the country But on the…
Bonus - The Killing of Tom O'Gorman

April 14, 2025 · 22 min

This episode was first released as a Patreon exclusive on 7th October 2018 This is the story of the shocking killing of Tom O'Gorman by his lodger, Sevario Bellante, who suffered from schizophrenia. Bellante had recently been weaned off…