Nicola Tallent

David Byrne was a very, very senior lieutenant.

He was also from criminal royalty, from the Byrne family.

His brother-in-law is Thomas Balmer Kavanagh.

You know, his brother is Liam Byrne.

And he's very much at the heart of the Kinnahan cartel.

We knew from the beginning that this

attack had occurred as part of the rivalry between the Kinahan and Hutch factions of what was once the one organisation.

And I think everybody was really trying to predict what this might lead to.

But nobody could have guessed.

That bit absolutely 100%.

But at that very early stage, I recall contacts of mine suggesting that the Hutches were an army.

Did they have the backing of the dissidents?

Was this going to, you know, were they going to be very heavily armed?

Because of that, they had contacts in the north.

It was like as if people were trying to size up how two premiership teams were going to play against one another.

That's what it felt like.

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