{"id":406233,"date":"2026-04-19T06:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406233\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:17:09","slug":"daniel-kinahans-final-hours-of-freedom-how-one-of-the-worlds-most-wanted-men-was-captured-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406233\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Kinahan\u2019s final hours of freedom: How one of the world\u2019s most-wanted men was captured in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Mobster (48) fled to UAE following the Regency Hotel attack in Dublin in 2016\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Daniel Kinahan has been living in Dubai\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aa2c3083-fe16-4282-82cb-5db3845094c3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Daniel Kinahan has been living in Dubai<\/p>\n<p>Maeve Sheehan and Ali Bracken<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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\u2019s most-wanted drug traffickers, as he went about his business in the glittering resort of Palm Jumeirah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mobster (48) fled to UAE following the Regency Hotel attack in Dublin in 2016 Daniel Kinahan has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18373,45,27007,200,70422,61,60,27006,6134,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-406233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ali-bracken","9":"tag-an-garda-siochana","10":"tag-daniel-kinahan","11":"tag-dubai","12":"tag-gerry-hutch","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-kinahan-cartel","16":"tag-maeve-sheehan","17":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}