The Regency Hotel attack at 10: Inside the moment Irish gangland entered a new era

Ten years after the Regency Hotel shooting, Cormac O'Keeffe examines how the Kinahan-Hutch feud reshaped Irish crime and policing

Gardaí cordon off the scene after the fatal shooting of David Byrne, aged 34, from Raleigh Square, Crumlin at the Regency Hotel, Dublin, on February 5, 2016. File Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

It was Ireland’s " Scarface moment", when imitation elite gardaí, armed with assault rifles, were about to enter a packed hotel.

That military-style attack on the Regency Hotel, on Dublin’s northside, on February 5, 2016, signalled a new era for gangland in Ireland.