One of the top figures in the Kinahan cartel in Britain and Ireland has been arrested as part of a major British-Irish police operation.

The Kinahan crime cartel is a key player in the European drugs trade, and their war with the Hutch crime group reflects escalating gang violence in Europe, say EU drugs and police agencies.

A court has heard two murder plotters sniff cocaine and talk about their readiness to shoot a woman and her baby or gardaí should any of them get in the way of their operation, in an audio clip recorded on a listening device secretly placed in the vehicle.

A Irish man aged 51 who has been linked to the Kinahan gang will appear in court in Britain later this morning following the arrests of two men as part of an investigation into the supply of drugs and firearms both here and in the UK.

Though it’s almost a quarter of a century since the then Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams offered his chilling and revealing reassurance to his constituency — “they haven’t gone away, you know” — that reality endures, even if those who would undermine this democracy have moved on from the old Sinn Féin/IRA axis and style themselves differently.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Kane McCormack have made an arrest.

It is being reported that the murder of Clive Staunton in Co. Kildare could be linked to a seizure of cigarettes in Dublin in recent weeks.

Gardaí are seeking to arrest a number of people based outside of Ireland in relation to the murder of Eddie Hutch.

Gardaí have prevented a suspected assassination operation by the Kinahan crime cartel.

The Garda Ombudsman GSOC has launched an inquiry after a loaded garda sub-machine gun was found on the street in Dublin.

Gardaí are investigating a shooting in Dublin's south inner city last night.

A Dutch Moroccan man with links to the Kinahan crime gang has been jailed for 18 years in Holland.

Gardaí have issued details of a van they think may have been used in the murder of Jason Molyneux last week.

Garda districts at the coalface of tackling gangs affiliated to the Kinahan cartel have seen a drop of almost 30% in staffing.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has warned members of the Kinahan and Hutch gangs at the centre of a spate of murders in inner city Dublin they have “no hiding place” and will be tracked down for their “brutal and heinous” murders.

It is understood covert surveillance will be carried out by specialist Gardaí at a boxing event in Citywest this Saturday.

Latest: Gardaí will face down the gangland threat in the wake of the latest gun murder in Dublin, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has said.

A priest has branded the perpetrators of gangland warfare "the living dead".

Key players in the Kinahan crime cartel will be brought before the courts in the near future, Dublin’s top garda has said.

Key players in the Kinahan crime cartel will be brought before the courts in the near future, Dublin’s top garda has said.

Gardaí say there’s been no arrests yet after the latest gangland murder in Dublin.

Irish criminals in the Netherlands will be “tracked down” and “handed over to the Irish authorities”, Dutch police say.

The two Dublin men have appeared in court this morning charged in connection with the seizure of just over €6m worth of drugs in Co. Meath on Wednesday.

There’s always a temptation to say a major drugs haul represents a ‘significant blow’ to the crime gang being hit. Researchers have long complained of the tendency of the media, and gardaí, to make such claims, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

A judge has refused to grant legal aid to a man charged with conspiracy to murder without a full breakdown of social welfare payments made to him.

Latest: Gardai have confirmed that two men in their 30s are due to appear at a sitting of Trim District Court tomorrow at 9am charged in relation to the €5m worth of drug seizures in Ashbourne yesterday.

Latest: Gardaí say the arrests of four men for conspiracy to murder in Dublin is one of the most significant operations ever undertaken in the State.

Gardaí have scored another success against the Kinahan crime cartel after they arrested a suspected hit squad member after he landed off a flight at Dublin Airport.

Garda armed units are on high alert after the Hutch gang exacted revenge on the Kinahan cartel by shooting dead a low ranking member.

Garda sources claim they repeatedly warned a man who survived a Kinahan cartel murder attempt on Wednesday to stay out of the city, but that these warnings were ignored.

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Dutch police are examining if CCTV cameras may have captured a botched murder attempt by a four-man British-Irish gang in one of Amsterdam’s most popular public squares.