Paul Healy

Good morning, Clare.

Well, Clare, our sources are telling us, and the story we have published in this morning's Irish Mirror and the Irish Daily Star, that Daniel Kynan is expected to be flown back into Ireland, extradited from Dubai by mid-July.

Now, I stress that that is a tentative date.

Of course, anything can happen.

Things do change, but I'm told that Gardaí are informed that they may be able to finally extradite Mr. Kynan from the United Arab Emirates around that date.

Now, Mr. Guinan is facing a charge of directing a criminal organization, and people will remember that he was arrested in the UAE back in April of this year.

Well Mr Kennan has the opportunity to fight his extradition and I suppose over the past couple of weeks he has been doing just that but I'm told that you know this is quite different to the case of his Lieutenant Sean McGovern who did fight his extradition for a period of seven months before he was finally brought back here and the Irish government has negotiated an extradition treaty with the authorities in the UAE since McGovern's extra successful extradition

And I think, you know, my sources are telling me that the authorities in Dubai really have run out of patience with the Kinahans.

It's a bad luck for them to be in their country and they really don't want to have to deal with this for any longer than needs be.

So I'm told that Mr. Kinahan has run out of road and Gardaí fully expect to have him extradited, you know, within the next month or so.

As I say, anything can happen, but that's still a much shorter window than Sean McGovern had, for example.

Yeah, I mean, it's known for its, I suppose, hellish conditions.

It's certainly not anything like what we would have in this country.

And I suppose, you know, and we're not privy to everything that's going on in the

You know, we don't know about the court's process.

It's notoriously secretive.

So we don't know really whether Mr. Kinnan is exhausting all avenues legally or whether he's actually willingly surrendering himself up to the authorities.

And you can kind of understand why he might do that, because the conditions in that particular prison would be nothing like that.

uh what he would expect if he is brought back here now i'm told uh if if and when he is brought back here he'd be flown into the case with aerodrome in val donnell and then he'll be taken to the prison in port leash which is the country's maximum security prison here but the conditions there would be far far better than aloe he will be brought to the a block in port leash prison where he will share a landing with sean mcgovern and he will enjoy

a relatively solitude existence there.