22. Stolen Dignity: The Cedarhurst Kidnapping

<p>When a man is found fleeing down a country road in County Meath with an iron chain padlocked to his wrist, investigators uncover a harrowing story of alleged domestic servitude and modern exploitation. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Shadows of Éire, we look behind the closed doors of a Ballymun flat and a rural yard to examine the unsettling mother-and-son dynamic of Jean Kearney and Mark Kearney. What began as a local drug debt spiraled into a landmark case that nearly made legal history as the state's first-ever human trafficking conviction.</p>