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The February 2016 weigh-in at Dublin’s Regency Hotel was attended by some of Ireland’s most notorious criminal figures, including prime target Daniel Kinahan, who now has a $5m bounty on his head after his gang waged the ensuing drugs war which claimed up to 18 lives, as well as trafficking drugs from South America to Europe.
The February 2016 weigh-in at Dublin’s Regency Hotel was attended by some of Ireland’s most notorious criminal figures, including prime target Daniel Kinahan, who now has a $5m bounty on his head after his gang waged the ensuing drugs was which claimed up to 18 lives, as well as trafficking drugs from South America to Europe.
Several of his most prominent fighters were due to take part in the ‘Clash of the Clans’ event at the national stadium the following evening. In the background, however, tensions between the Hutch and Kinahan gangs had been simmering ever since the murder of Gary Hutch in Spain the previous September. The nephew of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch had been shot dead despite an apparent deal between the two groups for his safety. Among the crowd standing at the back of the function room in the Regency that day were some of the Kinahans’ most senior associates. As Daniel Kinahan himself dealt ...