{"id":420122,"date":"2026-04-27T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420122\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:55:10","slug":"top-kinahan-gang-member-considered-targeting-rivals-daughter-days-before-being-shot-in-regency-attack-sentence-hearing-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420122\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Kinahan gang member considered targeting rival\u2019s daughter days before being shot in Regency attack, sentence hearing told"},"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\">Sean McGovern is being sentenced for directing a crime organisation involved in the murder of an innocent grandfather and in targeting opposing criminal James &#8216;Mago&#8217; Gately as part of the Hutch\/Kinahan feud\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777301710_316_video.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)\">Prison vans arrive under escort as Sean McGovern faces sentencing at Special Criminal Court   <\/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)\">High-level Kinahan gang member Sean McGovern considered targeting a rival\u2019s daughter two days after being shot and injured in the Regency Hotel attack, the Special Criminal Court has heard.<\/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 40-year-old, who used the nickname \u2018Knife\u2019 in encrypted gang communications, is being sentenced for directing a crime organisation involved in the murder of an innocent grandfather and in targeting opposing criminal James &#8216;Mago&#8217; Gately as part of the Hutch\/Kinahan feud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean McGovern is being sentenced for directing a crime organisation involved in the murder of an innocent grandfather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,27006,43,31620],"class_list":["post-420122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kinahan-cartel","tag-news","tag-robin-schiller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420122","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=420122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}