Niall
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
In non-Irish.
So you have a position that you have a guy who has been named by the US Treasury.
He's been sanctioned.
He has been named in Irish courts before as the head of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.
And you have him now arrested in custody in Dubai.
And people are still a little bit wary because he has...
said he's an innocent man, which of course, go to trial.
Let's see what the state has against you.
We're going to talk about a bit of that, what the state here does have in relation to Kinahan and what they are going to put before the courts in relation to him.
But it's extraordinary how that stuck.
Those legal letters were coming in from, you know, legitimate and quite high profile legal companies to media organizations.
And they were almost chilling at a point in time.
You know, the thought that you had somebody there Trump-esque with massive money behind them to kind of thwart you whatever way you possibly could.
the media had to stand its ground.
And I think we were well able to do that here in Ireland because we had a lot of background, we had a lot of knowledge of the situation.
I think what happened across the UK was this confusion.
What is this?
Because this is somebody who is being put forward by sports media, which in traditional days that would have been at the back of a newspaper, at the front you have the news.
I suppose when you have news on television you have