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Gardaí are secretly keeping watch over Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch amid fears the crime boss will be assassinated by the rival Kinahan crime gang on Irish soil.

A source said the Garda Ombudsman didn’t inform gardaí of their senior investigator’s resignation or his alleged attendance at the Hutch party until after the story had already broken in the media on Friday night.

An investigator with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) has resigned after he told people he had attended a party which Gerard Hutch was at on Monday night, it was reported this evening.

Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien has said that he and his Cabinet colleagues are "shocked" at revelations that a member of the Garda Ombudsman (GSOC) has resigned after telling colleagues that he attended a party which Gerard Hutch was at on Monday night.

Housing Minister Darragh OBrien has said that he and his Cabinet colleagues are "shocked" at revelations that a member of the Garda Ombudsman (GSOC) has resigned after telling colleagues that he attended a party which Gerard Hutch was at on Monday night.

Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien has said that he and his Cabinet colleagues are "shocked" at revelations that a member of the Garda Ombudsman (GSOC) has resigned after telling colleagues that he attended a party which Gerard Hutch was at on Monday night.

An investigator with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) has resigned after he told people he had attended a party which Gerard Hutch was at on Monday night, it was reported this evening.

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Ex-Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall, a former co-accused of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch who has turned State's witness, asked a garda "is there any way out" and "if him and his family could get into the Witness Protection Programme" in the days following his arrest, the Regency Hotel murder trial has heard.