In the name of the Mother- The degrading ordeal of “Jack”

When a young man named Jack is found fleeing down a country road in County Meath with an iron chain padlocked to his wrist, investigators uncover a harrowing story of domestic servitude and modern exploitation. 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 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.