Barry Cummins

Prime Time

Composite Image Showing Basking Sharks alongside a fishing trawler

Net loss? Why Ireland trails Europe on marine protection

Marine Protected Areas are seen as a solution to biodiversity loss and dwindling fish stocks, but why has Ireland has yet to deliver the law to make them real?

Prime Time • 23 Sep

940 missing: Are there lessons from the Gaine or Satchwell cases?

An Garda Síochána told Prime Time that 940 people are currently listed as missing on the Garda Pulse system. So could some of them be found, if fresh thinking, new tools, or different investigative techniques were applied?

Prime Time • 10 Jul

Barry Cummins (second from the right) speaks to photographer Kyran O'Brien and builder James McNamara (right) about their experiences inside 3 Grattan Street

Three stories from inside the Satchwell house

Prime Time's Barry Cummins has spoken with others who, like him, were also in 3 Grattan Street before Tina's body was discovered, six-and-a-half years after she went missing.

Prime Time • 31 May

Kelly O'Brien's daughter and husband were killed in a fire in 2012.

Mother's decade-long fight for justice after deadly arson attack

Kelly O'Brien always maintained that the fire that killed her husband and five-year-old daughter in 2012 was a deliberate act, not an accident, as gardaí insisted. Ten years later, a confession in relation to the fatal fire was made.

Prime Time • 11 Mar

The figure rises to almost 2,700 when including the 733 currently serving prison sentences are included

Nearly 2,000 sex offenders in the community - Garda figures

There are currently 1,939 convicted sex offenders living in the community in Ireland, according to gardaí. The figure rises to almost 2,700 when including the 733 currently serving prison sentences.

Prime Time • 20 Feb

John Crerar was convicted in 2002 of the 1979 murder of Phyllis Murphy

Murderer who evaded justice for 20 years dies serving life term

Convicted murderer John Crerar, who evaded justice for two decades, has died while serving a life sentence for killing 23-year-old Phyllis Murphy in 1979.

Prime Time • 27 Jan

'Thomas' lost €17,000 in a cryptocurrency investment scam

€17,000 gone: Irishman's story highlights rising crypto scam risk

Figures compiled by gardaí show €378 million was reported stolen through online fraud in the five years to the end of 2024.

Prime Time • 15 Jan

€17,000 gone: Irishman's story highlights rising crypto scam risk

Figures compiled by Gardaí show €378 million was reported stolen through online fraud in the five years to the end of 2024

Prime Time • 14 Jan

Detective Superintendent Colm Fox died on 10 February 2018

Missing Colm: Family of detective highlight the dangers of stress

Late Detective Superintendent Colm Fox's family sat down with RTÉ Prime Time Security Correspondent Barry Cummins to speak about their husband and father.

Prime Time • 06 Dec 24

Gerard Hutch leaving the Criminal Courts of Justice in April 2023

'Here, give us your number': Questions from and for Gerard Hutch

The long arch of Gerard Hutch's public profile reached another strange peak in recent days, when he arrived in the RDS Election 24 Count Centre, moments before he was finally excluded from the running for a seat in the Dáil.

Prime Time • 02 Dec 24