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GARDAÍ HAVE TOLD an associate of the Kinahan cartel that his life is in danger after he claimed partial responsibility for the murder of Eddie Hutch last year.
The man told two people close to him to pass on information to the Hutches about who was responsible for the taxi man’s murder on Poplar Row near East Wall just days after the Regency Hotel shooting.
The man, from the north inner city, was part of a suspected four-man killing team. He has named the other three men involved, including who ordered the hit, the location of the safehouse used for it and that the same hit team was used in the murder of Noel Duggan – a close friend of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch.
The man in question has been officially warned by gardaí that his life is at risk from both sides of the feud. Security sources as well as underworld contacts have told TheJournal.ie how the man has been racked with guilt since Hutch Snr’s murder and that he felt that he had been coerced into being there on the night.
According to underworld sources, the man has become more heavily dependent on drugs since the murder. He had been considered by many members of the Hutch gang as good friends before the feud began.
So while the Kinahans have now put a target on his head because of his dealings with detectives, the Hutches also now know he was part of the hit team which killed Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch’s brother and so too want him dead.
Prior to Eddie Hutch’s murder, the man had been convicted of a number of violent assaults.
Like many of the Kinahans’ underlings, the man ended up clocking up a large cocaine debt and was used by the cartel to ferry drugs around parts of the city. However, after paying off his debt, the Kinahans believed he had proved himself and he started conducting business across the city for profit.
From there, he became more respected in gang north Dublin outfit and was regularly put in charge of making sure the cutting and distribution of small consignments of drugs went smoothly.
Gardaí have been attempting to keep tabs on him since they informed him of the threat to his life. However, he has not been seen at the flat complex he grew up in since that warning, leading gardaí to believe he has fled the area.
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You forgot to ask, “how many genocides are they committing right now?”. Or “how many deadly viruses did their negligence unleash upon the world?”. “How many cigarettes a day is Beijing air the equivalent of smoking”… I could go on.
@Thomas Smyth: I guess ye didn’t bother with the quiz Thomas.
@Thomas Smyth: well, there’s the Tibetans, the uighurs, there Mongols and many other minority groups. I suppose when it comes to diseases ther’s sars, mers, bird flu, swine flu, man flu, covid 19. With regards to air pollution in Beijing it would depend on what we’re smoking, john player or major?
Why is the journal obsessed over China?
@Mark Twomey: they are going to buy our little island
I know that they are still preventing Irish citizen Richard O’Halloran from returning home to Ireland and to his family.
3/10 and I lived there for 2 years
@Mattress Dick: 4/10 I lived there 3 years so dont feel upset!
@Mattress Dick: 2/10. I order Chinese food once a week.
Again I asked earlier in the week….why all the pro China articles?
A great bunch of lads
Overweight people question: two thirds is the same as over half…… Over half is too ambiguous
@Paul Hedderman: anything under 66.6% is above half but not two thirds. Just as 66.7% would be over two thirds
9,000 Paddys doing us proud no doubt.
Zero
Small build of People with a Big Virus
I got 0. Guess I don’t know anything about China. Oh well, I’ll just go back to being awesome.
@aidan mccormack: yes nothing fills me with more awe than ignorance of China.
They’ve a lot of millionaires, I was surprised at that.
@Bert Carolan: who do you think is buying all our new housing projects?
@Paul’s TEFL adventures: just a little step towards the super power they will eventually come.
@Bert Carolan: considering the size of their population it’s a very small amount.
@JustHereForTheComments: to be fair to the Irish government, I couldn’t see them starting a new disease and denying all claims about the source of the disease.
@Sparky: the CCP obviously snapped up a few shares in the Journal and they’re just trying to keep on the right side of their overlords……..
Quality child labour practices,…..
@Eoin Fitzgerald: unlike the honest Irish government.
Is Simon Coveney funding all this pro china journal propaganda while they imprison an Irish citizen?
7/10. Greater China could mean all of the nations in the South China sea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and more according to the CCP so thats a right puzzler. There is a decent amount of Irish folk in Taiwan having creamy pints though.
@Paul Cunningham: Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan are not countries
Former British , Portuguese colonies.Taiwan taken from China by Japan until end of WW2, now occupied by desendents of defeated nationalists
They are all part of China.
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@Donal Desmond: Sure ask a Hong Konger or Taiwanese person that and you deserve to get your head knocked out like the lad in Jervis street.
@Donal Desmond: Says your man with the Easter lily as his profile pic. By your reckoning we’re all British so are we but just occupied by Irish nationalists?
@Donal Desmond: Found Coveney’s account.
The Chinese ‘A great bunch of lads’
Sure dey love de Irish and 94.7% of them love de hurlin and watch d’all Ireland. Chinese girls dream of marrying Sir Henry Shefflin and having kids that play for Tsingtao Kickhams,
The wiggle woggle said
When I’m standing on my head
I can see the coast of China
And it’s very very red..
” spike milligan”
Hou Hi is a Chinaman?
4/10, still laughing at me innocently clicking on 4 languages as my first guess.
@#FreePalestine: Nobody will ever admit to how covid started. The Chinese know but they will never spit it out. Was it started in a lad, eating bats? Nobody will ever know.
Ah lads ..not even a question on how many bicycles are in Beijing!!
@Eoin Fitzgerald: Sorry what makes Chinese people liars?
@Paul Gorry: I would consider SF bullsh*ters. FF are cute hoors and FG a boring party. Yes they probably lie to a small extent but on the scale of the Chinese.
@Eoin Fitzgerald: spoken like a politician in the making there eion fair play.
As much as I’d ever want to!!!
@Eoin Fitzgerald: But the Irish government are probably liars!!! Agree or disagree?
****not to the scale of the chinese
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