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Cover is an award-winning series investigating true stories of people living secret double lives, presented and produced by Mark Horgan and Ciarán Cassidy.Series 1: Where Is George Gibney? An Olympic coach charged with child sexual abuse who never stood trial. Instead, he vanished. Series 2: Stakekn...
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30 Episoden12. Case Update: George Gibney Arrested in Florida
In a hugely significant development, the former Irish Olympic swimming coach George Gibney has been arrested in Florida. Mark brings us the very lates...
12. Bonus Episode With Angela Donnelly, Sister of Eugene Simons
Angela Donnelly was one of the voices you heard at the end of episode 9 coming forward publicly for the first time. Angela is the sister of Eugene Sim...
11. Bonus Q&A with Mark Horgan and Patrick Radden Keefe
Mark is joined by the author of 'Say Nothing' Patrick Radden Keefe to discuss the making of 'Stakeknife' and also the television adaptation of 'Say No...
A message to listeners - Q&A with Patrick Radden Keefe and bonus interview coming soon
Two bonus episodes coming soon including a Q&A with Patrick Radden Keefe, the author of the international bestseller Say Nothing. The second episode i...
10. Frank
Mark travels to where Freddie Scappaticci lived after he disappeared from Belfast. A news report we featured from 1987 inspires a man to get in touch...
9. No Harm Will Come to You
Shauna tells the story of her mother Caroline Moreland. We hear how her campaigning has helped others connected to the the Stakeknife case and how oth...
8. The General and the Agent
We return to the solicitor’s office in West Belfast as Mark meets three crucial people to discuss the end of Scappaticci’s time in the IRA and his eve...
7. The Beginning of the End
In 1990, a man called Sandy Lynch was tied up, blindfolded and interrogated by Scappaticci. He survived to document his experience. Marks speaks to an...
A message to listeners - one week break
Episode 7 is available on Friday, January 3rd on BBC Sounds.
6. Playing God
Orla and Kevin Coyle tell the story of their father who was killed as an alleged informer by the IRA. The profound shadow cast by their father’s death...
5. Someone Bigger
Brendan Hughes wants to question Joe Fenton and find the “main mover.” Is Stakeknife suspected? We meet the former IRA man who interviewed Hughes and...
4. The (Estate) Agent
Mark tells the story of a man called Joe Fenton and how he was connected to Stakeknife. We learn there was a hierarchy of agents, where some were save...
3. The FRU
Mark meets two former members of the FRU, the secret army intelligence unit that ran the agent Stakeknife. How did they recruit people? How was Scappa...
2. Sin É
Mark speaks to the brother of one of the first people interrogated by Stakeknife. We follow Seamus’ journey as he retraces his brothers steps in the d...
1. The Man Who Never Was
A man flees Northern Ireland when he’s named as Stakeknife. At a surprise press conference a few days later he denies the charges but a forgotten tape...
Introducing... Stakeknife
In Northern Ireland from 1978 to 1994, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers; people accused of passing information to the police and the British A...
Mark explains why this feed is now called Cover.
A message from Mark Horgan on a new investigative series launching next week from the production team behind ‘Where Is George Gibney?’
This new...
11. Case Update
Almost three years on from our last episode, there’s a significant update on the case of George Gibney. We also hear from contributors to the podcast...
10. Sea Swimming
As a police investigation into Gibney is confirmed, survivors around the world begin to talk. A significant voice in the story of George Gibney comes...
9. Her Voice is Coming
Survivors continue to come forward for the first time and a new voice emerges from Waterford. We tell the story of Loraine Kennedy with some help from...
A message to listeners - new bonus Q&A episode out now on BBC Sounds
Download the free BBC Sounds app to hear a new bonus Q&A episode with Mark and Cass.
8. Talk
As our journey in the US comes to an end, it’s time to talk to George Gibney. But he hasn’t left his house in days and we don’t know why. Time is runn...
7. Christ Renews
We discover new information on Gibney’s life today and investigate his religious and coaching links. A Hall of Fame coach speaks publicly about his me...
6. Sunshine State
We learn of another abuse allegation involving Gibney, this time in Florida. A gifted former swimmer called ‘Susan’ is no longer well enough to talk t...
5. Land of Opportunity
As more abusers face justice, we knock on doors across the US to understand Gibney’s path. Former colleagues talk about the popular co-worker and volu...
4. He Upped and Vanished
As Gibney’s new life in the UK begins, a groundbreaking news article starts to take shape. The public are still unaware of Gibney’s past but this stor...
3. Bail
Two people who work closely with Gibney believe very different things about their boss. Meanwhile, Mark and Cass continue observing the former coach....
2. 'We've Been Expecting You'
It seems like time is up for George Gibney as Gary O’Toole goes on a mission to find more swimmers who may have been abused by the coach.
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1. It Happened in the Summer
It’s 5am, it’s dark. We’re in a car outside a house where we think the former celebrity coach now lives. The neighbourhood gets suspicious. A garage d...
Introducing... Where is George Gibney?
A famous Olympic coach charged with child sexual abuse never stood trial. Instead, he vanished.
Reporter Mark Horgan travels across Ireland, the...