{"id":628354,"date":"2026-08-09T09:13:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/628354\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:13:23","slug":"major-security-operation-in-place-ahead-of-daniel-kinahans-arrival-in-ireland-from-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/628354\/","title":{"rendered":"Major security operation in place ahead of Daniel Kinahan&#8217;s arrival in Ireland from Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large-scale security operation has been put in place in Dublin ahead of the expected arrival of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/daniel-kinahan_topic-5014118.html\">Daniel Kinahan<\/a> at Casement Aerodrome later today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The air corp&#8217;s Dassault Falcon 6X, callsign Irl290, took off at around 10.30am on Saturday. It arrived in the United Arab Emirates yesterday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The large-scale security operation facilitating the extradition involves An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/Defence Forces\">Defence Forces<\/a> and the Irish Prison Service. Sources say the flight is expected to land in Dublin at around 5pm on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Kinahan, 49, was arrested in Dubai in April after <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/an-garda-s%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na_topic-5076620.html\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na<\/a> sought his extradition under the bilateral extradition agreement signed between Ireland and the UAE in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The alleged leader of the Kinahan organised crime group has since lost his appeal against extradition and is now expected to be returned to Ireland to face a charge of directing the activities of an organised crime group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Government jet is due to land at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On arrival, Mr Kinahan is expected to be transferred under heavy armed escort directly to a sitting of the Special Criminal Court at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Kinahan has been living in Dubai for several years, including during the height of the Kinahan-Hutch feud, before his arrest earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In 2016, an attempt was made on Daniel Kinahan\u2019s life at a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In 2022, US authorities issued a reward of up to $5m (\u20ac4.3m) for Kinahan\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His extradition marks a significant development in the long-running Garda investigation into the Kinahan organised crime group and follows years of cooperation between Irish and Emirati authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large-scale security operation has been put in place in Dublin ahead of the expected arrival of Daniel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,55616,9217,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-628354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-daniel-kinahan","tag-defence-forces","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117064788017421438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}