Hutch: ‘Cops like headless chickens’

The trial also heard two men in the audio discuss, bombs, Danil Kinahan, politics and celebrities

In a recording heard by the court, murder accused Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch tells ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall that Daniel Kinahan looked ‘in a fuckin’ heap’ from photographs he had seen in a newspaper after the Regency Hotel attack. Photo: Gareth Chaney Collins

The Special Criminal Court has heard a recording of murder accused Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch tell ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall that Daniel Kinahan looked "in a fuckin heap" from photographs he had seen in a newspaper after the Regency Hotel attack.

The trial of Mr Hutch has heard that the two men, in conversations captured by a garda bugging device as they allegedly travelled to the North to meet with republicans, also discussed many topics including politics and celebrities.