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'This is bigger than Daniel Kinahan': Gangland figure's time in Dubai could be near an end
Five years ago today – the rules of gangland changed forever.
By Garreth MacNamee
Friday 5 Feb 2021, 6:15 AM
Feb 5th 2021, 6:15 AM
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Daniel Kinahan.
Daniel Kinahan.
AT LUNCHTIME ON 5 February 2016, a white van approached the front of the Regency Hotel. What was to happen in the following five minutes was to change the face of Ireland’s criminal history forever.
Five years and 18 murders later, the country is still reeling from the events which shocked the world on that cold and wet afternoon.
On Monday, BBC Panorama aired a documentary – Boxing and the Mob – detailing Daniel Kinahan’s link to the upper echelons of the boxing world, along with his association with crime and murder.