Gang boss Cornelius Price faces being locked up in an English jail for the rest of the year after a court ruled that his kidnapping trial will not start until December 6 next, the date of his 40th birthday.
An administrative officer said the case at Wood Green Court is fixed for that date and is expected to last between eight to nine weeks.
Notorious criminal Price (39) is who is linked to the Maguire gang involved in the deadly Drogheda feud, is one of six people who have been charged in England over a plot to kidnap two men.
He has now been locked up in medium security HM Prison Dovegate in Uttoxeter on the kidnapping charges for almost seven months and is unlikely to get bail until his trial is completed.