{"id":587098,"date":"2026-08-08T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587098\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:54:11","slug":"daniel-kinahan-to-be-extradited-to-ireland-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587098\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Kinahan to be extradited to Ireland TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daniel Kinahan is set to be extradited from Dubai to Ireland today (August 8).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The alleged crime boss, who was named in the Irish High Court as a senior figure in the Kinahan crime gang, was arrested in Dubai back in April on the foot of an international arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/tag\/daniel-kinahan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Kinahan<\/a> and his father, Christy Kinahan Senior, had been living in the UAE after moving there from Spain back in 2016 \u2014 the bloodiest year of the Hutch-Kinahan feud, in which Daniel Kinahan survived a suspected attempt on his life at <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2022\/10\/19\/news\/newspaper-photographer-fear\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Regency Hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Daniel-Kinahan-3.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Kinahan\" class=\"wp-image-1799388\"  \/>Daniel Kinahan is set to be extradited from Dubai to Ireland today (August 8).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the completion of the extradition paperwork between Ireland and the UAE, a government military plane left Baldonnell in Dublin to bring Mr Kinahan back to Irish soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plane departed Dublin on Saturday morning (August 8), bound for the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is understood that Mr Kinahan will land in Ireland either on Saturday night or Sunday morning, where it is expected that he will be conveyed to the Special Criminal Court, and from there, it\u2019s expected that he\u2019ll be charged with directing organised crime.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Daniel-Kinahan.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Kinahan. Pic: Collins Dublin\" class=\"wp-image-735327\"  \/>Mr Kinahan was arrested on the foot of an international arrest warrant in Dubai back in April, and was extradited back to Ireland on Saturday. Pic: Collins Dublin<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the Air Corps\u2019 three military transport C295 planes is being used for the flight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senior sources involved in the operation said that the new Government jet had been considered for the flight at one stage but that the idea was abandoned over fears that public perception of using the \u20ac 53 million aircraft would be unfavorable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Kinahan\u2019s right-hand man, Se\u00e1n McGovern, was extradited back to Ireland from Dubai aboard a C295 earlier back in May. The plane refuelled in France and Cyprus on the way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786200851_333_Daniel-Kinahan.jpg\" alt=\"kinahan\" class=\"wp-image-1162571\"  \/>Mr Kinahan was named in the Irish High Court as a senior figure of the Kinahan Cartel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr McGovern was extradited in relation to two charges of directing the activities of a criminal organisation and was sentenced to 24 years in the maximum security Portlaoise Prison in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon his return to Ireland, it\u2019s understood Mr Kinahan will be kept in the A block of the same prison.<a href=\"https:\/\/showheroes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Kinahan is set to be extradited from Dubai to Ireland today (August 8). The alleged crime boss,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-587098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587098","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=587098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}