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Joe Molloy

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Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

That's at the other end of the spectrum?

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

To go back to something very interesting you said, Nicola, what boxing represented to Kinahan.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

So one, he had a very genuine passion for it regardless, right?

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

I mean, he just liked the sport.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

And then somewhere along the line, it was potentially an off ramp to, as you said, respectability, to being legitimate, to power, influence, glamour, etc.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

So one, that's really interesting if that's what boxing represented to him.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

And then secondly, I suppose the other side of the coin is it's why a lot of people, he came to the attention of a lot of people.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

Gary Lineker does not know about Daniel Kinnahan if he's not involved with Tyson Fury, the UK audience and beyond.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

And maybe, I don't know, there's less of a kind of pressure to get him on authorities.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

I suppose what I'm asking is, was this intensity around Kinnahan

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

nailing down Kinahan if he hadn't been such a public figure in the boxing world would it have been as intense as partaking in boxing kind of quicken events or hazing events or was this coming regardless even if he never went near boxing and most people in the world didn't know his name?

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

I personally think that his attempts to legitimize himself in that way and to become such a public figure is what heightened everything.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

Now, there's a couple of strands to all of this, right?

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

So if you just bear with me briefly, you know, you try and get into the head of Daniel Kinahan.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

Daniel Kinahan's father is such an important person and such a bizarre, unusual person.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

guy inhabiting that world because he was a middle class man who came from a very loving, supportive family.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

Both his parents worked, he was educated.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

He chose that world and he went into it all the way back in the 1980s in Dublin and he went from zero to 100.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

He was a nobody and the next thing he was caught with ยฃ100,000 at the time.

Crime World
A Closer Look: Daniel Kinahan, boxing, the rise & fall

worth of heroin, the biggest seizure at that point in the history of the state.