Nicola Tallent

Producer, Ian Mullaney.

Senior writer, producer, Jenny Friel.

Assistant producers, Nasa Komiski and Chloe McPolin.

Episode editor, Jason Mullaney.

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If you are already a subscriber to crimeworld.com, you've probably binged on our six-part deep dive into the life and the rise of the dapper Don Christie Kinahan.

From the streets of Dublin to the head of a global cartel, what made and moulded the ambitious Kinahan?

And where is he now as he runs from the law?

For those of you who haven't joined us yet, here's a short extract from our exclusive series, which is just a click away.

So we're going to do a rest here.

We're going to start this tome, which is the sort of the life and crimes of Christy Kinahan Senior, who has to be the most fascinating individual in the entire sort of Kinahan cartel set.

You know, I mean, he is...

an intriguing character, to say the least.

And there's a little bit of intrigue and mystery to his background, which we're going to go into.

Some of it is clear and other bits, the stories that go around the mix and you can never, like for example, you know, some people would say he was a heroin addict.

I know he did tell the courts at one point that he did, but he did it for a reason.

And the reason was he wanted a free education.

We'll come back to it because that is something that, you know, certainly some people close to him say that was never the case.

Yeah.

And those who are sort of, I suppose, become his enemies in more recent times would definitely say that like it's a... A stick to beat him.