One of Ireland’s best known crime busters has admitted the infamous Regency Hotel attack by the Hutch gang was a dismal milestone in modern gangland history.
And, writing in a new book to celebrate 100 years of the Garda Siochana, former Assistant Commissioner Michael O’Sullivan also says he believes the attack was a catalyst that made the government get serious on tackling organised crime – including the Kinahan cartel.
Mr O’Sullivan says in a book called The Guardians, 100 Years of An Garda Siochana that the February 2016 Regency Airport Hotel attack in north Dublin in which the Hutch gang tried to murder Daniel Kinahan, 45, but only succeeded in killing pal David Byrne, 33, was one of the darkest days in gangland Ireland.
