Three men who worked for the Kinahan organised crime group have been jailed at the Special Criminal Court for drugs, firearms and money-laundering offences.
Anthony Glynn, 52, of Fitzgibbon Court in Dublin who acted as a "conduit" for the gang's "industrial scale" drugs and ammunition operation was sentenced to six years in prison with the final year suspended.
Convicted murderer and gunman for the Kinahan group, Bernard Fogarty, 35, from Cromcastle Court in Coolock in Dublin, was sentenced to 15 years for attempted murder.
Gerard Mackin, 40, who was extradited from Spain last year was sentenced to three-and-a-half years for money-laundering.
It brings to over 60, Kinahan gang members and associates who have been jailed for organised crime offences.
To all intents and purposes Anthony Glynn was a hardworking man, a father-of-four with some health problems who had no serious difficulty with the gardaí.
However the 52-year-old porter at the Mater Hospital was also a key link for a drugs and weapons storage depot for the Kinahan organised crime group, using encrypted mobile phones to communicate messages between gang members including his brother.
His involvement was discovered after gardaí seized €1.4m of the Kinahan's cannabis and cocaine in crates as well as its ammunition at a business park in Dublin in March 2017.
Glynn's brother Douglas was the Kinahan’s trusted manager of the drugs and weapons store and was jailed for eight years earlier this year.
Older brother Anthony, whom he was an influence on, was today jailed for five years.
Bernard Fogarty is a volatile, violent Kinahan gunman. The 35-year-old is already serving life in prison for murder and a separate sentence for firearms offences.
Gardaí in Coolock arrested Fogarty after he shot Mark Ivers in Donaghmede in Dublin in September 2019. Today he was jailed for 15 years for that attempted murder.
The third Kinahan gang associate jailed today was Gerard Mackin, who had a reputation for extreme violence.
Originally from Belfast, Mackin was a friend of Kinahan gunman Caolan Smith and convicted Kinahan murderer Jonathan Keogh.
He spent time with the gang in Dubai where the top three Kinahan gang leaders were based.
Mackin pleaded guilty to money-laundering after he was caught with almost €5,000 in Limerick and extradited from Alicante in Spain to face the charge.
Mr Justice Tony Hunt said his previous offence gave context to the discovery of the money and even though it was only a relatively small amount, sentenced Mackin to three-and-a-half years in prison.
The jailing of the three men brings to over 60 the number of Kinahan gang members and associates jailed since the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel, a figure which gardaí say indicates the extent of the gang's influence and involvement in organised crime in Ireland.
