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A senior Kinahan cartel member serving a sentence at Portlaoise prison was nabbed with four phones after a raid on his cell this week.

Senior Kinahan cartel member Patrick Curtis and Sligo gang boss Barry Young have been caught with mobile phones in Portlaoise Prison after raids this week.

9 men have appeared in court charged in connection with a number of incidents in Tallaght last night. The men, aged between 20 and 47 appeared before a special sitting of the Criminal Courts of Justice this morning.

Crime Correspondent A gunman for the Kinahan organised crime group, who tried to murder a rival Hutch gang member almost three years ago, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Caolan Smyth, a father-of-three, from Cuileann Court, Donore in Co Meath shot James Gately five times on 10 May 2017. A second man, 53-year-old Gary McAreavey, of Gort Nua, Station Road, Castlebellingham, Co Louth, who is not in any criminal gang, helped burn out the getaway car. He was jailed today for three years. Smyth, 29, had Mr Gately under surveillance and followed him to the Topaz Petrol station near D...

It’s been a five-year war on organised crime that has changed the landscape of the underworld and how An Garda Síochána should fight gangland in Ireland forever. Never before has a relentless campaign against one mob been so successful in terms of convictions, seizures and as a message from the State that there is no tolerance of any level of criminality when it comes to drug wars. More than 60 men and women are now behind bars as a direct result of Kinahan mafia feud activity. Many others in jail on unrelated offences have identified themselves as being affiliated to the Organised Crime ...