Gardaí turn up heat on Kinahan crime cartel following further raids in Dublin

The Kinahan crime cartel was dealt a further blow yesterday after gardaí targeted “middle and lower ranking” members of the network in Dublin.

The operation against a south inner city drug gang follows Wednesday’s operation hitting those at the upper end of the Kinahan cartel in nearby Crumlin.

However, gardaí also turned the heat up on the Hutch gang, whose feud with the Kinahans has so far resulted in three murders, with searches in Co Donegal in relation to the seizure of three AK47s, similar to the ones used in the murder of David Byrne in the Regency Hotel last month.