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Kinnahan-Hutch Feud Questions

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Brief overview

Two crime reporters defend publishing facts about the Kinahan-Hutch feud, including the asylum seeker and the Kirwan photograph.

  1. Report the facts, whatever the reactionThey were first to say the suspect was an asylum seeker and stand over naming him, grief or not.
  2. The Kirwan photograph was everyone's blind spotNobody, not even the Gardaí, thought a man in the background of a funeral photo would be targeted.
  3. Someone always fills the voidGardaí now call the West Dublin gang known as the Family the biggest in the country.
Executive Summary AI
  • Jordan Canning asks about Ruth Coppinger TD, who told the Dáil that mainstream media had irresponsibly stoked up the flames of racism by reporting that an asylum seeker was being sought for the murder of Jamie Carney.3:02
  • Mick O'Toole says their paper was the first to report the suspect was an asylum seeker, and although the law bars naming anyone in the international protection system, both stand over naming him once he fled the country after the murder.6:02
  • A listener asks whether it sat right to publish the photograph of Noel Kirwan, an innocent father of three later shot dead outside his home in Clondalkin, walking beside Gerry the Monk Hutch at Eddie Hutch's funeral three days after the Regency Hotel attack.14:37
  • Encrypted messages that came out at Sean McGovern's recent sentencing showed the Kinahans called Kirwan the duck and wanted a gunman to cut his teeth on a soft target, and the hosts say they would never publish that photo with hindsight, though not even the Gardaí saw the danger in March 2016.18:37
  • Asked whether Brian Grendon, Jonathan Gill and Daniel Kinahan could be jailed at the same time, they explain Grendon, 48, is sent forward to the Special Criminal Court over directing a crime gang and cocaine worth 13 grand, Gill has lost his fight against extradition to Northern Ireland over the murder of Robbie Lawler, and that someone always steps in at the top of the tree.38:14
Key Quote
“Firstly, we were the first newspaper to say the suspect was an asylum seeker. And we did that despite knowing that we would get grief.”
— Mick O'Toole6:02
Key Quote
“I have absolutely no time for racism. I fully believe in people's right to come here from any country to work here and to contribute to society.”
— Paul Healy7:27
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“So I guess we were all naive to that fact. What happened to Mr. Kerwin was dreadful.”
— Paul Healy20:21