{"id":644305,"date":"2026-08-18T21:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/644305\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T21:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:47:17","slug":"sinn-fein-td-unaware-party-mp-was-considered-as-legal-representative-for-daniel-kinahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/644305\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD unaware party MP was considered as legal representative for Daniel Kinahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Sinn F\u00e9in TD has denied having any knowledge of a party representative being considered as legal representation for alleged crime boss Daniel Kinahan.<\/p>\n<p>Cavan-Monaghan TD Matt Carthy told reporters on Tuesday he was unaware of reports that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/arid-41617702.html\">Sinn F\u00e9in MP and solicitor John Finucane<\/a> met with Mr Kinahan while in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Reports in both the  Sunday World and  Belfast Telegraph suggest that Mr Finucane met with Mr Kinahan at Portlaoise Prison last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Finucane is a partner in the legal practice Finucane Toner, which he operates alongside Ciar\u00e1n Toner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It was previously reported that Finucane Toner had sent out two legal letters on Mr Kinahan\u2019s behalf in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Kinahan appeared before the Special Criminal Court on August 9, having been charged with directing the activities of a criminal organisation after his extradition from the UAE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">During the hearing, Mr Kinahan did not have any legal representation and was remanded in custody before being transferred to the maximum-security Portlaoise Prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Tuesday, Mr Carthy said he knew \u201cnothing about it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Pressed further if he would have a problem with Mr Finucane representing Mr Kinahan, Mr Carthy reiterated he was unaware of the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI haven\u2019t seen those reports, so I\u2019ll have a look at them and I\u2019ll come back to you,\u201d Mr Carthy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI\u2019m not going to speak in hypotheticals. Let me find out what the actual situation is, and I\u2019ll come back to you when I have the facts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Finucane has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"listbullet\">\n<li>Tadgh McNally, Political Reporter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A senior Sinn F\u00e9in TD has denied having any knowledge of a party representative being considered as legal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[43729,9,10,55616,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,47,7,8],"class_list":["post-644305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gangland-crime","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-daniel-kinahan","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-sinn-fein","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117118713607839913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644305","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=644305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}