Triona O'Connor

Daniel Kinahan is expected to be held in the state's maximum security facility in Portlaoise if he is extradited.

Kinahan was, of course, arrested as part of a secret joint operation between the Garda and authorities in the United Arab Emirates earlier this month.

Here to tell us more is Crime World's Nicola Tallent and criminologist Trina O'Connor.

You're both very welcome.

to the programme.

To come to you first, Nicola, why is Portlaoise Prison considered to be the suitable place for housing somebody as notorious as Daniel Kinahan?

I'm sure one of the big concerns, should he be extradited, is not just keeping him safe within these prison walls, but within the prison environment.

But if he has to be transported from the prison to and from court.

So that will just give you a sense of what it would cost if a figure like Daniel Kenahan were to be extradited back here.

To bring you in, Trina, there's an interesting piece in the front of the Irish Times today and it's quoting...

the head of the prison service here and she talks about the increase in the number of gangs that we are seeing and operating within the prison system.

It's gone up by 15 to 34 in the past years.

How effective is the policy of separating rival gangs across prisons such as Mountjoy Prison, Wheatfield Prison and indeed Portlaoise?

Well, that prison overcrowding must also make it more and more difficult to try and keep these gang members separate.

Okay let me bring back in Nicola Tallent here because we know Daniel Cunningham is currently in the UAE

Where is that extradition process at, Nicola?

But you would be confident that the prison service here has the experience and the capacity to process a high-risk, high-profile inmate should Daniel Kinahan be extradited back to Ireland?

Crime World's Nicola Tallent and criminologist Trina O'Connor, thanks so much for speaking to us on The Clare Bourne Show.