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Politician entered Seanad in 1989 and Dáil in 1992, later becoming a junior minister; he now retires as a city councillor

Gerry Hutch (pictured) was this week found not guilty of the 2016 killing of David Byrne, who died in the Regency hotel in Dublin in February 2016, the first killing of the Hutch-Kinahan gangland feud.

GANGLAND figure Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch didn’t plan to spend his 60th birthday behind bars in Wheatfield Prison last week.

After Dublin man Gerard Hutch is cleared of murder, we look at the the key themes of the trial.

To borrow a phrase once used to describe another famous north inner-city personality, Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch was the “most cunning, ruthless and devious criminal of them all”.

In his youth, Hutch steered clear of the heroin epidemic, focusing on lucrative armed robberies and later property investment before the emergence of the Kinahan feud

As he turns 60 today, Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch will mark the significant birthday in Wheatfield Prison with a visit from close family and friends.

DAVID JONES: On a bitingly cold morning in Stockholm, two days ago, I stood among 200 mourners in a Muslim cemetery, set in a magnificent pine forest.

We look back at tracks from some of this year’s nominees, including Wet Leg, Rina Sawayama, Dave and more.

Mountain Scene By MARK PRICE The timing for our Aussie visitors couldn’t have been better. Just three days after the first international flight in more than a year landed at Queenstown Airport, Arrowtown’s holding the mother of all autumn parties. The 36th Arrowtown Autumn Festival fires up today after, like all major events last year, being forced to put the 2020 event on ice. The town that sprang from the 1860s gold rush has turned on the colour just in time for the five-d...