Donal MacIntyre

The Donal MacIntyre Radio show on Five Live returns for a new run on the 31st of January. The show has been running for nearly two years and continues to grow audience and in confidence. “I am blessed with one of the best journalistic teams in British Broadcasting and I am very happy to present their work to our Five Live audience. It is my favourite day of the week”. Donal said. MacIntyre presented five ‘Up All Night’ shows over the Christmas period and continues to be a staple Five Live presenter for the BBC.

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The reporter and adventurer, Donal MacIntyre, has joined forces with Merlin Publishing in Dublin and been signed up to a two book deal. It is understood that one is a compendium diary of experiences, investigations and adventures and the other – is a ‘Madcap Weather book’ for weather and storm chasers.

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The Sunday Telegraph Reports:THE DIFFICULT THING IS TO LEAVE WITH CLEAN HANDS`

To make his first feature film, Donal MacIntyre built a relationship with one of Manchester’s most notorious gangsters. He tells Marc Lee the risks – physical and moral: The first time Donal MacIntyre met the gangster Dominic Noonan – the subject of his first feature documentary – Noonan told him that his brother Dessie had been told to “whack” the filmmaker. MacIntyre retorted: “Well, he’s not very good, is he?”He also threatened another crew member during the shooting of A Very British Gangster. When the producer, Sam Emmery, mentioned that he was from Holland, Noonan told him: “I killed a Dutchman once. Make sure you’re not the second.”

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UNTAMED MALADY – As part of my investigations into the criminal underworld I met some of Manchester’s feral teen’s. These were among the most dangerous individuals I have ever met. It does not bode well for the future of our inner cities. The following are transcripts of my interviews with them in the Guardian. Patrick Butler, Guardian Society Editor, takes up the story.

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The film A Very British Gangster has recorded over 100,000 sales by Dvd and is now on sale in the US through Netflix. The US rights were acquired by Anywhere Road and the UK rights by Contender. The film received support from the Irish FIlm Board.

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Donal MacIntyre reports on Britain’s underworld for Mail on SUnday
For his cinematic debut, investigative TV reporter Donal MacIntyre spent three years shadowing a Mancunian gangster. He asks how crime lords like Dominic Noonan – armed robber and convict – can operate outside the normal rules of law
The conditions, I’m reliably informed, are perfect for a bank job. The street, with its boarded-up windows and desolate back alleys littered with the residue of drunks and junkies, is still and quiet. The distant sound of a group of kids playing kick-about with a can somehow intensifies the silence. We pull over just before a junction.

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Watch out for a new eight part series looking at the people behind our surveilance society – the human face of Big Brother – I have been amazed at their stoires and hope to bring you a new insight with extraordinary footage and exclusive access with CCTV CIties coming to Five in April – watch the site for more information.

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My current high priority campaign is for the provision of a trauma centre for miscarriage of justice victims. The following is an article I wrote for The New Statesman which gives the circumstances behind my involvement in this new campaign and my work with MOJO – The Miscarriages of Justice Organisation.

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