Mobster (48) fled to UAE following the Regency Hotel attack in Dublin in 2016

Daniel Kinahan has been living in Dubai

Daniel Kinahan has been living in Dubai

Maeve Sheehan and Ali Bracken

Today at 06:30

It was a glorious Friday morning in Dubai, 26C at sunrise and climbing to 30C by mid-morning. The temperature was also rising for Daniel Kinahan, one of the world’s most-wanted drug traffickers, as he went about his business in the glittering resort of Palm Jumeirah.

The man-made island, shaped like a palm tree, features a commercial hub along its trunk and luxury beachfront residences. It is where Kinahan, his wife Caoimhe Robinson and their five children have lived for the last decade.