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Gardaí seize €300,000 and cash counting machines in Kinahan gang crackdown

Two men in their 30s have been arrested.

GARDAÍ HAVE ARRESTED two men in south Dublin and seized €300,000 in cash as part of their crackdown on warring gangs in the capital.

A planned search was carried out at an address in the Sandyford area yesterday evening. Cash in excess of €300,000 was discovered and seized along with cash counting and packaging equipment.

Significant documentation was also recovered in the raid, including a ledger of locations where cash was due to be sent.

A man in his 30s was arrested at the scene and detained at Blackrock garda station. Follow-up searches were conducted in the Clondalkin area and a second man in his 30s was also arrested. He is being held at Clondalkin garda station.

It is understood these two men are connected to the Kinahan crime gang. Gardaí said the operation was part of “ongoing investigations targeting serious criminal activity” in the Dublin region.

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    Mute Derek Moean
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    May 5th 2017, 10:33 AM

    Best news all morning…great work from the Garda…..

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    Mute Alan Cooke
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    May 5th 2017, 1:42 PM

    @Derek Moean:
    Funny that this story’s comment section is open. These men will be up in front of a judge shortly so comments could be claimed to be influencing the case.

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    Mute HoneySmuggler617
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    May 5th 2017, 1:52 PM

    @Alan Cooke: Fcuk them let them take their medicine. I hope they get 5 years

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    Mute tom
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    May 5th 2017, 7:02 PM

    @Alan Cooke: only when protecting the chosen is comments closed. Its ridiculous as the comments are opinions like it or not there will always be opinions

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    Mute Richard Murphy
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    May 5th 2017, 11:27 AM

    Gardai seize 300000 in cash, they estimate the cash to be worth 3 billion on the streets

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    Mute Rodan
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    May 5th 2017, 12:25 PM

    @Richard Murphy: Comment of the day right there!

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    Mute Gerry Carroll
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    May 5th 2017, 7:23 PM

    @Richard Murphy: love it

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    Mute Colm Ó Liatháin
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    May 5th 2017, 10:42 AM

    The gaurds will “lose” it tomorrow anyway. Copper faced jacks here they come.

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    Mute Honeybadger197
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    May 5th 2017, 10:43 AM

    @Colm Ó Liatháin: yawn

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    Mute Martin Ryan
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    May 5th 2017, 10:47 AM

    @Colm Ó Liatháin: more money to go missing from a Garda station.

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    Mute Stephen Devlin
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    May 5th 2017, 10:48 AM

    @Martin Ryan: might just about pay for that welfare fraud campaign

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    Mute Nick Allen
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    May 5th 2017, 11:17 AM

    @Colm Ó Liatháin:

    Luckily it is the Gardaí that are looking after the money and not some gaurds, whatever they may be.

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    Mute Paraic McDonagh
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    May 5th 2017, 12:29 PM

    @Colm Ó Liatháin: Gardai have said that they were delighted to have recovered the 300k. The 290k is now secure in the station. A Garda spokesman has expressed disbelief that a criminal gang could have amassed the 280k, which was made up of 4 bundles of 60k each.

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    Mute Eddie Byrne
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    May 5th 2017, 10:51 AM

    Thats grand a new extension to the Garda Boat club maybe a few new canoes for O Sullivan and Co to sail away with their golden handshakes.

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    Mute iMoan Brutal
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    May 5th 2017, 10:54 AM

    @Eddie Byrne: I doubt Noreen would bring herself to use such peasant transport. Unless of course its a 45ft “canoe”

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    Mute Shakka1244
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    May 5th 2017, 11:02 AM

    @iMoan Brutal:

    A 1,765,349ft “canoe” more like

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    Mute John003
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    May 5th 2017, 11:17 AM

    Gardaí doing great work…Hope the Judge in court backs them up…When they are released on bail at least electronically tag them please.

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    Mute mick scanlan
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    May 5th 2017, 12:57 PM

    @John003:
    who are you refferrin to tag who the gaurds?

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    Mute Micheal S. O' Ceilleachair
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    May 5th 2017, 1:26 PM

    @John003: don’t release then on bail, Kinahen will have them killed. They are better off behind bars for their own good.

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    Mute Dub_Right
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    May 5th 2017, 10:36 AM

    Probably only a week’s worth of protection money collected in the area by the Kinahan mob, i’d say the Don Christy Kinahan would wipe his Bhind with €300k

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    Mute Ronan Farrelly
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    May 5th 2017, 11:05 AM

    @Dub_Right: And can that be still uses as legal tender?

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    Mute Hello there friend
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    May 5th 2017, 12:30 PM

    @Ronan Farrelly: if he’s using the new €50 notes there would be feces all up his back, nothing sticks to them.

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    Mute Stephen Devlin
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    May 5th 2017, 10:51 AM

    Should just about cover the funds needed for Leo’s welfare fraud campaign.

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    Mute Big Lee
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    May 5th 2017, 10:59 AM

    Our corrupt gardai just got a few more quid to spend on their holidays.

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    May 5th 2017, 11:21 AM

    While this is good news, it’s hard to discount the Gardai penchant for exaggeration.

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    Mute Murf T Will
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    May 5th 2017, 10:50 AM

    You’d be tempted to throw one of them in behind a press in the station. Sneak in then when the rest of them are ordering the Chinese for the night shift.

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    May 5th 2017, 11:02 AM

    @Murf T Will:

    Ya can’t beat an old Spice Box

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    Mute Al coholic
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    May 5th 2017, 10:35 AM

    Haha shot for the (unts

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    Mute Fiona Heneghan
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    May 5th 2017, 10:59 AM

    €30.00 not €3000,000.

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    Mute Shimmy Shammy
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    May 5th 2017, 12:40 PM

    @Fiona Heneghan: €3 million isn’t mentioned anywhere

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    Mute Fiona Heneghan
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    May 5th 2017, 5:31 PM

    @Shimmy Shammy: I as bad as garda putting in a extra 0.

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    Mute Fiona Heneghan
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    May 5th 2017, 5:33 PM

    @Fiona Heneghan: No sleep for the past few weeks catching up on me sick child.

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    Mute Tweety McTweeter
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    May 5th 2017, 2:25 PM

    Man, I’d love to have enough cash to have a need for a cash counting machine

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    Mute Gerry Carroll
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    May 5th 2017, 7:22 PM

    @Tweety McTweeter: fair’s fair, the Gardai need all the help they can get for counting.

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    Mute YouHaveGotToBeJoking
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    May 5th 2017, 12:27 PM

    “WOW – €500,000!”
    “No, there’s only €300,000 here silly *WINK*WINK*”

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    Mute Rodan
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    May 5th 2017, 12:28 PM

    The Kinahans will know who is the rat soon, there’ll hardly be anyone left on the outside!

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    Mute Nasir Saeed
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    May 5th 2017, 2:43 PM

    i bet there was more money there but gardai took there share

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    Mute The IMF are here
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    May 5th 2017, 8:16 PM

    Christy has expensive taste owning a waging house in Beacon South Quarter

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