Gangland Shootings part 4 - Read OP before posting - updated 30/12/23

The thing completely confusing me is media reporting Jack Kavanagh's arrest in Malaga airport whilst 'transiting from Dubai to Turkey'. Is that like flying Dublin to London with a connecting flight in Kabul? It's also interesting that Turkey has been mentioned. Yes, they could be getting hairplugs, heroin or turkey teeth, but also scoping out a nation that rarely extradites criminals, if there's not a bunch of them already there.

He was probably using up his lidl flight stamps before they run out.. ✈️

Byrne being in Mallorca since the 26th of May is interesting too. He was only lifted on Sunday. Did the Spanish authorities monitor him with the hope that more of his pals might fly in? No doubt the Spanish will release the video of the arrest in due course.

I don't think Turkey would be a good spot for the either though for a few reasons. The Turks are looking to join the EU. Now that might not happen anytime soon but they wouldn't be able to offer criminals a safe enough sanctuary if they did join. Even as part of the process to join they would have to be seen to be acting on it at least. Also they wouldn't be the king of the castle in Turkey either.

Either way the net is well and truly closing now. How many really trusted people do the Kinahans really have left around them now? I'm not talking about the security that they hire either. You'd wonder what is going through their heads now. Would they take 10 years in Mountjoy over 50 years in a US Federal Supermax?

Interesting times are ahead. People would previously had Byrne down as shrewd and an intelligent criminal but there you go. FFS. He might as well have gone to courtown for his holidays. Probably less chance at him being lifted.

Nicola Tallant said on her podcast that Byrne was unaware there was a warrant out for his arrest, so maybe its a recent enough thing

Was Gerrard in Majorca with him?

Don't understand how Gerrard could not realise that being pally with Liam was not a wise move and his daughter knocking about with the son wasn't either .

Hope Liam Byrne gets locked away for a long time. Lots of blood on his hands.

Silly of him to visit Spain but probably travelled with a false passport.

The town he was arrested in was very out of the way also, so he probably thought it was a calculated risk.

I'm surprised Stevie G let's his daughter anywhere near the Byrnes. The fact he pals around with the likes of Nathan Little and Liam Byrne shows there isn't much upstairs.

Overall I'm delighted the Kinehan/Byrne cartel is being dismantled. Hopefully Daniel is next.

The country seems to be flooded with cocaine so however they make it work, I'm sure it'll continue regardless. There's always someone else to step in and run operations.

doubt Jack was looking for a new bolt hole in Turkey, as said the Turks are desperate to start negotiating entrance to the EU plus they extradited Nicky back over the Gareth Hutch hit..

id assume the via Palma route was to meet someone in Spain and then connect onto Turkey..

id say he’s running messages and directions for Bomber as he’s probably the only one he trusts and they won’t risk telecommunications

He is refusing extradition back to the UK. That's a shock. Does he know his goose is cooked yet? That's he'll be doing a decent stretch in the UK and be well into his fifties before he gets out. Like all of them the landscape will have well and truly changed. He will be an old man in the grand scheme of things and the newer breed won't take kindly to him.

Are there any warrants out for him in Ireland? AGS should be able to get something on him and squeeze another few years out of him being locked up.

The bell is tolling for him and his mates now. The son will have to get a job too maybe. Stevie G's daughter won't stick around there for long.

Gerrard has plenty of documented links to similar lads in Liverpool, so unlikely that he was too put off by the Byrne's backstory.

They gave up looking to join the EU years ago. Not saying they'll want a load of on the run crims either tho.

Probably russian mafia or something, at least keep it Irish.

Fair enough he might enjoy the notoriety of hanging around with gangsters, but wouldn't he be more protective of his young daughter!?

The Byrnes were very recently involved in a very bloody gang war. Couldn't she get caught in the crossfire? Also exposing her to drugs.

Maybe the Gerard's background in Liverpool is to glorify gangsters and to be anti-government, anti-authority etc.

I find it madness.

I'm delighted they're all getting locked up. Animals belong in a cage.

It's thought that in the UK....customs intercept 10% of smuggled goods and the police between 1 and 5 percent.

Given Irelands lack of navy,Custom boats and links to mainland Europe I'd say the percentage is smaller.

Was he with his kids at the time of arrest? I read somewhere the wife popped over to Ibiza for a quiet one while he was in Majorca.