Eamon Dillon
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Are these flash, these houses?
And when that house was raided by the guards in 2020, they estimated then about nearly 300,000 euro had been spent on the property.
It looks like the way that they, you know, they bought the houses for cash.
They sometimes had left them in the previous owner's name or in someone else's name.
They collected rent out of them.
And people got to, often gang members got to live in them, presumably.
Sounds a little bit like...
what was discovered when the Criminal Assets Bureau had a look at the Byrne organised crime gang and saw what was happening with the cars.
The cars were a currency?
So CiarΓ‘n Keane Jr.
is, these houses are up for sale and the last one will, the kind of more flashy one will come up for sale next year.
But he is based now in Dubai?
Yeah.
You know, the Limerick mobs, we never, ever would have thought would have been sophisticated enough to make that, to migrate like that.
But they've changed, haven't they, in those generations?
So Kieran Keane Jr.
is now mingling with international drug cartels.
And he would be the first, that's the first generation of Limerick, apart from the unnamed associates or relatives on the other side that have made that migration.
He is kind of the first big key player to do that.
But has always remained in Limerick, living there.