Nicola Tallent

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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 Sr., 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 later.

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 that, 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.

Exactly.

Yeah.

But there's other little bits that are unusual.

We'll start and we'll go through as much as we know factually and then we'll also discuss the rumours.

So he's born in 1957.

He's six years older than Gerry the Monk Hutch, which just gives him a little bit of a...

And, you know, we can we can see where he is.

He's what I would always say was into the bosom of a respectable middle class family.