The UTV Podcast

Northern Ireland's top female prosecutor has defended the PPS's decision to bring a murder prosecution against a victim of domestic abuse, who killed her partner.
In a wide ranging interview for UTV, Marianne O'Kane reassured survivors that she was prioritising tackling violence against women - including the new offence of 'coercive control' - despite parts of the law not yet being in place.

Former Ireland back row powerhouse Stephen Ferris, is the man who outmuscled Australia at the World Cup and he insists the team are determined to go all the way at this year's tournament.
He spoke with UTV Sport Correspondent Ruth Gorman.

In this episode Carol Jordan sits down with UTV's Health Reporter Deborah McAleese to talk about a special edition of UTV Live airing on 13 October at 6pm which looks at the reasons why people travel abroad for medical procedures and the pros and cons of doing so.

More lives were probably lost than saved through the Army’s operation of its top agent inside the IRA’s internal security unit during the Troubles, a major independent investigation has found.
The interim findings of Operation Kenova examined 101 murders and abductions linked to the Provisional IRA’s so-called “nutting squad” responsible for interrogating, torturing and murdering people suspected of passing information to the security forces during the conflict.
Operation Kenova, which was undertaken by Bedfordshire Police and ran for seven years at a cost of approximately £40 million, examined the role of the Army’s prized agent embedded in the heart of the IRA’s Internal Security Unit (ISU), an individual known as Stakeknife.
The agent Stakeknife was widely believed to be west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, who was 77 when he died last year.
Delivering his report Jon Boutcher said the lives saved by the double agents activities were in the single figures. He said the intelligence services' believe Stakeknife was the "golden goose" was the thing of "fables and fairytales".
In this week's UTV Vodcast, Carol Jordan and Jordan Moates discuss the report, its findings and the fall out.

August 8, 2023, will go down as a key date in UK policing history.
That was when the PSNI, in answer to a simple question on the make-up of the organisation, released detailed information that has put at risk everyone of its officers and staff at risk.
In this episode of the UTV Podcast, Carol Jordan discusses the security breach with Jordan Moates.
They discuss the ramifications, they likely cost and the telling response of the chief constable to the debacle.