{"id":586991,"date":"2026-08-08T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586991\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:30:08","slug":"government-jet-leaves-ireland-for-dubai-as-daniel-kinahan-expected-to-be-extradited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586991\/","title":{"rendered":"Government jet leaves Ireland for Dubai as Daniel Kinahan expected to be extradited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A GOVERNMENT JET has left Ireland and is headed towards Dubai, where it is expected that Daniel Kinahan will finally be extradited.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that the alleged crime boss will be brought to the Special Criminal Court in Dublin to face charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and other military personnel will be involved in the operation once he lands in Ireland tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The government jet took off from Casement Aerodrome this morning around 10.30am and is currently flying over Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kinahan, 49, was arrested in Dubai in April on foot of a warrant issued by the Irish courts over alleged serious organised crime offences.<\/p>\n<p>Dubai police said they had arrested an \u201cIrish fugitive for his alleged role in an international organised crime network\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kinahan recently lost an appeal against the extradition.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland and the United Arab Emirates agreed a bilateral extradition treaty in 2024, which came into effect in May of last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Additional reporting from Conor Brummell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A GOVERNMENT JET has left Ireland and is headed towards Dubai, where it is expected that Daniel Kinahan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1115,27007,200,25995,7782,61,60,43,21107],"class_list":["post-586991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-crime","tag-daniel-kinahan","tag-dubai","tag-extradition","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-organised-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586991","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=586991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}