Garda Chief Superintendent Seamus Boland

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211 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 10 Jul

Garda Chief Superintendent Seamus Boland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 7.

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Crime World · The Science of Fear - The Net Tightens (Episode 6) · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

There was four firearms laid out on the ground, fully loaded, that appeared to be ready for collection. voice-verified

So I've no doubt an imminent attack was prevented on that date. voice-verified

That information, which was in the form of a logistics document that had been left behind, hadn't been destroyed as it was supposed to, actually identified a company in the UK and a potential route that was being used by the gang voice-verified

to smuggle their drugs and firearms into the UK. voice-verified

So that information absolutely was passed straight over to the National Crime Agency. voice-verified

And that assisted their investigation in advancing to the stage where it is, where everything is now in the public domain and the successes that the UK had, which were very important for us here in Ireland. voice-verified

Crime World · The Science of Fear - Blood and War (Episode 5) · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

You know, we must never forget that the most shocking of all the murders is actually the attack on the Regency Hotel.

That is the most outrageous, violent, ridiculous organised crime attack that's ever happened in the history of this state.

So the level of violence shown there is as bad as what happened afterwards.

Probably the most horrific organised crime attack in the history of this state.

It's outrageous.

It was psychotic.

Also one of the greatest failures in organised crime for the people who planned it, because it had the exact opposite effect, I think, to what they were going to do.

But

What sort of a mind comes up with something like that on the international circuit is a very dangerous, psychotic level of criminality.

These people know no boundaries whatsoever and it's by the grace of God that multiple people weren't murdered on the day of the Regency attack.

I have absolutely no doubt if the guards arrived

the intent would have been to murder the police, such as the level of absolute violence and the danger posed by the people who went in there.

I do believe that the Regency attack was an absolute miscalculation where...

where the people who carried out that attack probably didn't appreciate themselves the power and the support and the level of control and violence that the other group was capable of unleashing afterwards.

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