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We all know who you are, Miss Guerin. That does not grant you immunity. Veronica Guerin 2003 starring Cate Blanchard & Gerard McSorley & Ciaran Hinds & Brenda Flicker & Don Wycherley & Barry Barnes & Simon O’Driscoll & Emmet Bergin & Charlotte Bradley & Mark Lambert et al, director Joel Schumacher, judge
In 1994 the illegal drug trade drove crime rates to the highest level ever recorded in Ireland. 15,000 people injected heroin every day and methadone clinics registered addicts as young as 14. That year Veronica Guerin, a journalist known for reporting church scandals and corporate corruption, started writing about crime. ibid. caption
Veronica Guerin on Dublin’s new young criminals, high on champagne and cocaine. Dublin Narcos s1e3: The Untouchables, newspaper article, Sky 2023
Dublin’s drugs squad has identified a new breed within the established breed of the narcotics hierarchy … Cocaine is held in special affection. ibid.
‘Drugs really took hold of Dublin City in the 1980s.’ ibid.
June 1996, Dublin: A murder that rocked the nation: the victim a fearless investigative journalist fighting against organised crime. Veronica Guerin gave her life to expose Ireland’s dark underbelly. True Crime Recaps: She Gave Her Life to Expose a Dark Truth: Veronica Guerin, Youtube 8.37, 2023
Thanks to her court date Veronica’s enemies knew exactly where she was going to be that day. ibid.
The man on the back of the bike reaches into his jacket and he pulls out a .357 Magnum revolver; six shots fire. ibid.
Veronica’s death became a national obsession. ibid.
‘The dogs in the street know who the drug barons are.’ Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes report, Guerin, CBS 1997
She was a woman, a mother and the most famous reporter in Ireland. Thousands of people attended the funeral including the president and the prime minister. ibid.
Her death has become a national obsession. ibid.
An underworld of drugs and organised crime. ibid.
The gunman jumped back on his motorbike and disappeared in the midday traffic. ibid.
[Jack Kelly, retired DEA]: The Kinahans are in my news feed. I’m following everything. I was reading about the Kinahans and the war they had with the Hutch. 18 people get killed? It’s like mayhem on the streets! Kinahan: The True Story of Ireland’s Mafia I, BBC 2025
This is the story of the 40-year hunt for the Irish Mafia. ibid. caption
The Kinahans were street dealers who became billionaires. ibid. journalist
DEA Wanted: Christopher Vincent Kinahan, Daniel Joseph Kinahan, CHristopher Kinahan junior. ibid. US press conference
It sounded like gunshot, but of course we didn’t actually believe that could be happening at an international boxing weigh-in. ibid. Irish rozzer
Within 15 seconds, 3 [fake] uniformed Gardai came into the bar area and told everyone that this is the Gardai, to lie down … ibid. witness
I saw a man basically getting assassinated. ibid.
His face had been removed obviously by one of the gunshots. ibid. Irish rozzer
After the Regency happened, it was almost like an explosion went off. ibid. journalist
1960s: Christy Kinahan senior would be like a cuckoo in the nest of organised crime. He doesn’t really fit. ibid.
And he decided that he would get into the heroin business. ibid. rozzer
The Dunne family: They were the crime family in Dublin City. It was common knowledge that Larry Dunne had introduced the heroin. ibid.
Larry Dunne: Eventually, the law caught up with him. ibid.
From working Dublin City you began to realise there was somebody else on the market. There was this constant flow of heroin starting to take over the market. And it was more reliable and more consistent … the name Chris Kinahan came up: he was the figure behind it, he was top of the apex. ibid.
His desire to show off was his downfall. ibid.
They found Christopher Kinahan with over £100,000 of heroin … Kinahan was jailed for six years. ibid. TV news
1996: Veronica Guerin was murdered. ibid.
Christy junior and Daniel start ecstasy dealing in Dublin. ibid.
They were arranging the importation of drugs and weapons. ibid.
Cunningham over the next three to three and a half years builds what Kinahan had left behind … But then Cunningham is arrested again. ibid.
The [Kinahan] boys are massively well embedded in the whole fabric of organised crime across Europe. ibid.
It’s now known that Kinahan and his associates were the subject of a vast surveillance operation, mounted by police forces in Holland, Belgium, the UK and Ireland, using phone tapes, videos and covert observation. ibid. news
With the mass introduction of cocain into Ireland, there was this dramatic upsurge of gangland violence. ibid. comment
That economic boom, it generated an even greater boom in gangland and organised crime, because the new Irish fell in love with cocaine. It created this whole alternative eco-system, a bit like the rats in the sewers beneath the grills. Kinahan: The True Story of Ireland’s Mafia II, comment
You have to have a presense on the Costa del Sol. ibid.
He [Gerry Hutch] was suspected of being behind two of the biggest robberies of the state. ibid.
The Kinahan and the Hutch collaboration – it was always destined to blow up in that way as well. ibid.
Paddy Doyle was a known quantity in Dublin as a gangland figure. He was a wanted man, and when he turned up dead in a Spanish housing estate, there was a great deal of interest. ibid.
Gary Hutch had set him up. ibid.
This was a huge big takedown of the Irish Mafia in Spain. ibid.
By 2013 they had got bail and were out. ibid.
And they thought they would honour this agreement. None of them ever do. ibid.
Daniel Kinahan reneges on the deal and has Gary Huth whacked. ibid.
The Patrick Hutch Trial collapsed in 2019, and all charges were dropped. ibid.
Kinahan Transnational Criminal Organisation, also known as the KTCO, has been accused of a wide range of heinous crimes all around the crime, including murder, trafficking of firearms and narcotics. Kinahan: The True Story of Ireland’s Mafia III, DEO press conference
Thomas Bomber Kavanagh was an Irish drug dealer, a very significant one throughout the 1990s. ibid. journalist
Bomber Kavanagh sanctioned the murder of his cousin, Hatchet Kavanagh. ibid.
Christy Kinahan senior appears to be out in Dubai from about 2015. Daniel and Christopher junior moved to Dubai in the summer of 2016. ibid.
So that’s why I’ve linked up with MTK Global. ibid. Tyson Fury
Daniel Kinahan still can’t get his head out of home and his enemies. ibid. journalist
Kinahan’s Crumbling Empire. ibid. newspaper headline
Bombs Away: Kinahan’s No2 gets 21 years for 36m Euros drug deals: Kavanagh’s underlings also given long terms. ibid.
Kinahan’s muscling in on new combat sports. Kinahan: The True Story of Ireland’s Mafia IV, Daily Star headline
The DEA were starting to form an assessment – that all of these kingpins from across Europe and all of the key people were in the same place, they were spending time with each other all in Dubai. A business network there. ibid. comment
Daniel Kinahan is the last man standing. ibid. jounralist