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<strong>The long read</strong>: Malcolm Macarthur was the wealthy, bookish socialite who shocked Ireland with a brutal double killing in 1982, and caused a major political scandal. I tracked him down and heard, for the first time, the tale he told about himself

Among Irish people old enough to remember the summer of 1982, Malcolm Macarthur is as close to a household name as it is possible for a murderer to be. Though his name is not surrounded by anything like the miasma of malice and depravity that arise from, say, the name Peter Sutcliffe in the UK or Jeffrey Dahmer in the United States, it carries, in this country, a similar generational weight.

In his riveting account of the events of the tragic murders of Bridie Gargan and Dónal Dunne, the manhunt for Malcolm MacArthur, and the political crisis that unfolded after his arrest, Harry McGee observes that to the detectives who caught him, “the man who held Ireland in the grip of fear for over three weeks cut a pathetic figure"

GUBU is a podcast series from The Irish Times about a series of crimes that rocked 1980s Ireland

Bertie Ahern and Michael McDowell remember how they had to ‘endure Jamie Oliver’s squid in ink for lunch’ in Downing Street during Belfast Agreement negotiations