
Katie Taylor will be cheered on by her adoring fans in Dublin on Saturday. MGM eventually became known as MTK Global. In 2012 Kinahan had set up a boxing management company called MGM, with Matthew Macklin, whom Moore had fought against in 2006 before becoming his trainer. In 2020, in the Irish parliament, Leo Varadkar discussed these criminal activities with concern and, in regard to Kinahan seeking refuge in Dubai, the Taoiseach, said: ‘While I cannot comment on any particular Garda operation, I can certainly assure you that there has been contact between Department of Foreign Affairs and the authorities in the United Arab Emirates.’” Daniel Kinahan fled Ireland soon after the Regency attack and he, his father and his brother have been wanted by the Garda and European law enforcement agencies. A month later, while convalescing at home in Manchester, Moore told me how lucky he had been, as one bullet missed an artery by millimetres, and that Kinahan was “a good bloke” in the sense that he supported boxers.īut it has since been accepted in the Irish courts that the Kinahan Organised Crime Group is “involved in drug trafficking, money laundering and gangland executions” worth more than a billion dollars. It was another case of mistaken identity as the authorities eventually established that the shooters had been aiming to kill Kinahan. Jamie Moore, who will be in Cameron’s corner as her chief trainer, was shot twice outside Kinahan’s home near Marbella.

The murderous feud between the Kinahan and Hutch cartels had been sparked by a different shooting in August 2014. The attackers were linked to the Hutch gang and the Irish police, the Garda, believe their intended target was Daniel Kinahan. On 5 February 2016 at the Regency Hotel a boxing weigh-in was invaded by four gunmen who killed David Byrne, a member of the Kinahan drug-running gang.
