In 1982, Malcolm Macarthur, an Irish aristocrat and heir, was in financial trouble. With a vague plan to rob a bank, he bought a crossbow, a tweed fisherman’s hat, and called his mother.

In 1982, wealthy socialite Malcolm Macarthur shocked Ireland with a brutal double murder. 40 years later, he's finally breaking his silence in a new book. Author Mark O'Connell explains what it ...

Released from prison five years ago, double killer Malcolm MacArthur rejoined the Irish public in 2017, attending the book launch of former Irish Minister for Justice Alan Shatter.

Malcolm MacArthur during his trial at the Central Criminal Court in 1983. Photo: Independent News And Media/Getty Images. Despite Macarthur’s arrest, early in the morning of 14 August, ...

Malcolm Macarthur had one particular trait that became more and more apparent as I researched The Irish Times podcast series, Gubu, and, subsequently, my book, The Murderer and the Taoiseach.

The only witness to Malcolm MacArthur’s murder of nurse Bridie Gargan has broken a 30-year silence to reveal the horror of what he saw that day ...

Malcolm Macarthur had the means to do nothing with his life yet couldn’t even manage that successfully. Photograph: Collins Over 300 pages, he succeeds in stripping the phantasmagorical aspects ...

At the age of five, Malcolm Macarthur was kicked in the head by a horse. At least that is how his neglectful mother and a farmhand on his parents’ Irish estate recalled it. Wrong, insists Mr ...

APIECE of paper in Malcolm Macarthur's handwriting, found after his arrest in August 1982, showed that he was actively considering the murder of his mother, Irene, at her home near Trim in Co Meath.

In the same way that Malcolm grasps that Sischy’s culinary performance throws light on her entire approach to life, or that Fisher’s treatment of her cats says more about how she runs her company than ...

Malcolm Macarthur being led from a courthouse in Dublin in November 1983. Credit... Independent News and Media/Getty Images. By Christopher Benfey. June 27, 2023.

In 1982, wealthy socialite Malcolm Macarthur shocked Ireland with a brutal double murder. 40 years later, he's finally breaking his silence in a new book. Author Mark O'Connell explains what it ...