The South Dublin criminal from a wealthy family who became a close associate of the Kinahan gang
O'Sullivan was known as a skilled drug trafficker before specialising in EncroChat phones, which allow criminals to communicate under the radar
Kinahan cartel
Alleged Kinahan associate sent daughters to exclusive Swiss school despite no legitimate income, High Court hears
Ciaran O’Sullivan is known to law enforcement agencies as transnational drug-trafficker, says Criminal Assets Bureau
Gun attacks fall to record lows after 90% decline from gangland peak
Number of people wounded in gun attacks last year more than 90% down on gang feud peak of Celtic Tiger era
Senior gardaí warn Kinahan cartel members of ‘serious life choices’ ahead
Drew Harris and Justin Kelly note that a $15 million US cash reward remains available to those with information on group’s key players
Fall of House of Kinahan? Dubai no longer criminal safe haven after Sean McGovern extradition
Sean McGovern's ‘precedence-setting case’ has implications for other Irish fugitives based in the emirate
Kinahan cartel member Sean McGovern charged with murder following extradition from Dubai
Senior member of organised crime group arrived in Ireland on Thursday evening and was taken under armed escort to the Special Criminal Court
Kinahan associate Sean McGovern arrested after landing in Ireland from Dubai and is due before Special Criminal Court
Dubliner is facing a charge of murder, and of directing organised crime, related to the Kinahan-Hutch feud
Leading Kinahan cartel figure Sean McGovern being extradited from UAE to Ireland
Dubliner was one of seven people sanctioned by US law enforcement in 2021 when rewards of $5 million offered for information on cartel
The Family business: Stop using corporate jargon to describe drug gangs
‘It has not been a good week for the CEO … of the country’s biggest drug trafficking gang’
Workers try to convert Kinahan figure’s house to social housing but are ‘physically threatened’
Seán McGovern’s house was seized by Cab in 2019, but Dublin City Council has been unable to renovate it
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Ireland’s post-Kinahan drugs trade: Names and faces change but methods remain all too familiar
Background of €10.6m cocaine find in Kilkenny starting to become familiar in Republic’s gangland scene
DPP directions still awaited on Eddie Hutch snr murder case, coroner’s court told
File was sent to DPP more than a year ago in relation to the almost decade-old shooting of brother of veteran criminal Gerry Hutch, coroner’s court hears
Dublin drugs gang linked to €10.6m cocaine shipment concealed in truck
Man (60s) arrested after gardaí find drugs hidden in vehicle stopped in Co Kilkenny
Millions of dollars ‘under the table’: Daniel Kinahan’s backroom role in boxing
Court filings cast new light on Irish crime boss’s dealings with big promoters and relationship with champion fighter Tyson Fury
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February 9th-14th: including Gerry Hutch: Aka The Monk, Virdee, and Northern Irish comedy Funboys
UAE extradition treaty targeting Kinahan cartel should be in force by ‘end of February’
Bilateral treaty with UAE signed by Helen McEntee in October, but arrangement not yet in place
‘A violent and callous crime’: Man (39) jailed for life over role in murder of Gareth Hutch
Vera Hutch tells Thomas McConnell’s sentencing hearing her son was ‘senselessly and cruelly taken’ in May 2016 shooting
Ireland is not immune to the wave of foreign state espionage sweeping Europe
One of the first tasks of the new government will be how to persuade the incoming Trump administration that Ireland is not a soft touch
The year in policing: how did Garda Commissioner Drew Harris respond to the biggest challenges of 2024?
Far-right-inspired violence and continued sluggish efforts to grow the Garda force dominated Harris’s final full year in charge
Son of Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh to walk free from prison after guilty plea in gun cache plot
Jack Kavanagh admitted helping Kinahan gang member in scheme where guns stashed and National Crime Agency told of location
Senior member of Kinahan cartel faces sentence in London after gun conspiracy guilty plea
Peter ‘Peader’ Keating (43), convicted of directing serious crime in Dublin during Kinahan-Hutch feud, faces fresh sanction from Old Bailey, alongside Jack Kavanagh (24)
Publishing photos of riot ‘persons of interest’ was ‘necessary’ and ‘proportionate’, Drew Harris says
Garda Commissioner says force will pursue Kinahan cartel members if they attempt to flee to Russia
‘This is a bit of craic’: Why Dublin Central voted for Gerry Hutch
In Dublin’s north inner city support for the veteran criminal known as the Monk shows how ‘disaffected’ locals are
Kinahan cartel, Russian ‘elites’ and Kremlin linked to multibillion euro money laundering network
UK-led Operation Destabilise investigation confirms Irish gang’s links to organised crime in Russia
Colm Fox inquest hears of ‘endless’ requests from defence team in Regency Hotel trial
Det Supt Colm Fox was found dead at Ballymun Garda station while Patrick Hutch was on trial for the February 2016 murder of Kinahan crime group associate David Byrne
Criminal Assets Bureau puts former home of Daniel Kinahan on the market
Saggart house to be auctioned in December with minimum opening bid of €550,000
Kinahan Assassins: The scale, depth and depravity of organised crime in 21st-century Ireland laid bare
The courage of the authors – and crime journalists generally – who venture into this dangerous area without a badge or warrant card needs to be recognised
Son of Kinahan gang leader Thomas Kavanagh admits gun plot to help father
Jack Kavanagh (24) pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy to possess a firearm
Vast drug cash seizures reflect Ireland’s changing crime world
Latest consignment, of €3 million, returned to exchequer by Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, on a par with some annual returns by Criminal Assets Bureau
Gardaí meet police in Dubai to discuss extradition of Kinahan cartel leader Sean McGovern
Sean McGovern (38) is first Kinahan cartel figure arrested in Dubai, although extradition does not fall under recently signed treaty
Which of the Kinahan cartel leaders is most likely to be caught and what happens next for Gerry Hutch?
With senior figures jailed and Dubai’s status as a safe haven for Irish criminals ‘in tatters’, is the net closing on the cartel?
Gerry Hutch arrested in Spain under money-laundering investigation
Hutch (61) detained on Lanzarote and his Clontarf home searched as part of Spanish police inquiry
Why is Gerry Hutch still being targeted?
Gangland leader is focus of Spanish Guardia Civil investigation into international money laundering
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