{"id":457107,"date":"2026-05-19T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457107\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:04:11","slug":"news-ireland-probes-gambling-on-gangland-figure-in-election-amid-money-laundering-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457107\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Ireland probes gambling on gangland figure in election amid money laundering concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>IRELAND\u2019S Finance Minister and T\u00e1naiste (Deputy Prime Minister) has instructed officials to probe gambling on a byelection, over suspected instances of money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>It came after reports that multiple accounts placed suspicious bets on Gerry Hutch, the gangland figure known as \u2018The Monk\u2019, to lose the vote.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/phone-tablet-desktop.png\" alt=\"AML Intelligence\"\/><br \/>\nSubscribe now to have unlimited access<\/p>\n<p class=\"amlpmp-content-message__description\">With our membership subscription, you will have unlimited access to the AML Intelligence site, updated daily with the latest analysis, opinion, and breaking news across the sector, newsletter delivered twice per week, access to our Global Bank Fines &amp; Penalties database, free access to Boardroom Series and more!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/membership-account\/membership-levels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View subscription options<\/a><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If you have an account, log in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent IRELAND\u2019S Finance Minister and T\u00e1naiste (Deputy Prime Minister) has instructed officials to probe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1471,61,60,43,70],"class_list":["post-457107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gambling","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-simon-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457107","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=457107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}