Niall Donald

I mean, it was savage if you consider that these people were hirelings who had no skin in the game.

Yeah, he was living in, was it Derby or Nottingham or somewhere around there.

And it was actually this crime as what they were investigating that the guards had been in touch with the UK police.

No, and of course then whoever had hired him and who that's been referred to as the paymaster routinely now in the news media, that kind of, maybe that investigation to a degree at least, and I'm sure the guards continued to

look into it but it probably dies with Dublin Jimmy because you know he's gone and I suppose that would have been the guards preference would have been to bring him in arrest him you know and see if they can you know move that on from there but of course that there is so while these three guys and their crime is horrific there is a couple of people who escaped justice one way or another

As of this moment, anyway.

I think he's the most interesting of all the gangland criminals, really, if you see where he's come from and where he's ended up and how he's managed to navigate through all of those eras of organized crime.

An incredible story.

If he was involved in another arena of life, he'd be regarded as a kind of heroic businessman.

But of course he's not.

He's involved in a murderous cartel.

But an incredible story.

Yeah, no, I mean, it's very interesting, the heroin addict.

And maybe we'll come back to that.

That would have been a good job, a well-earning job, certainly back in the day when taxis were protected.

His father was also at some point registered, I think, as a dairy farm manager.

And also people would say he was involved in street trading, not, you know...

as a lot of people in Dublin would have been over the years, involved in some stalls and selling in that sort of arena.

So, Christy Kinnan is raised in Cabra, but his birth certificate says that he was born in England, in a place called Perryvale, near Ealing, I think, in London.

So this is the late 1950s when at that time in Irish history, we were, you know, there was high unemployment.