Garda Chief Superintendent Seamus Boland
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211 appearances
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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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And then there's a weird mindset as well that they wanted to show that power as a respect to their fallen colleague.
A brother-in-law who you were close to, you're going to be a significant feature at the funeral.
So I don't believe there was any...
perceived you know decision or any decision made that I'm going to come out in front like I am in front and you know the funeral is like all funerals this was a tragedy this this was a murder this is total shock that was put on this family this this was a wrong
It was very publicly very clear the position that he held and then the people that he was being photographed with.
where there was clearly discreet meetings and all that taking place.
And that's what was in the public domain.
And then we would have been aware of what was going on that wasn't in the public domain in relation to the meetings and that that were taking place.
So, you know, whatever about appearances or anything like that, there's absolutely no doubt you're talking about the top of the food chain here when it comes to organised crime.
When we were established in 2015 and conducted our analysis of everything that was available to us, the Kinahan gang, which includes...
Thomas Kavanagh and all his associates was and became our primary focus for investigations.
So it was our primary focus for investigations among a number of groups that we were also looking at at the time.
But the Regency just escalated.
You know, the level of resources that became available even to us...
And the absolute focus to once and for all, this needs to be dealt with.
The levels of violence were shocking.
Nothing new because these groups, as I've said already, were engaging in these levels of violence back in the 90s.
But all of a sudden you had very public murders and executions taking place of people who weren't involved in any of this, actually.
Working at the top levels within the groups, they've also a finite number of people who are willing to pull a trigger and kill somebody or who are willing to drive those people or willing to support those murder teams.
The gangs operate in their little cell structures, very similar to how the paramilitaries did.
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