Dowdall tried to get 'republican contacts' to mediate Hutch-Kinahan feud, court told

The Regency attack was "performative, targeted" and had elements of "the militaristic and the macabre", prosecution counsel said

Prison vans arriving at the Criminal Courts of Justice amid a heavy Garda presence for the Gerry Hutch trial today. Picture: RollingNews.ie

Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch told former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall that he was "one of the team" that murdered Kinahan gang member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in 2016, the Special Criminal Court heard on Tuesday.

The Regency attack was "performative, targeted" and had elements of "the militaristic and the macabre", prosecution counsel Sean Gillane SC told the three judges of the non-jury court.