The Special Criminal Court has heard a recording of a man the state claims is murder accused Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch tell a man they allege is ex-Sinn Fein Councillor Jonathan Dowdall that Daniel Kinahan looked "in a fuckin heap" from photographs he had seen in a newspaper after the Regency Hotel attack.
The trial of Mr Hutch has heard that the two men, in conversations captured by a garda bugging device as they allegedly travelled to the North to meet with republicans, also discussed many topics including politics and celebrities. The man the state claim is Dowdall talked about how Sinn Fein would be "stupid" not to go into coalition and that they "can't sit back and throw their toys out of the pram". Dowdall also allegedly says that Eoin O Broin is "very good", that "his bird is ur wan Lynn Boylan" and that "he was the one that made a stand".
The man alleged to be Mr Hutch on the recording was also heard saying he liked the singer Imelda May. "She's mad as a bleedin' brush," the man the state says is Dowdall had replied.
The three judges of the court also listened to a recording allegedly of Mr Hutch telling Dowdall that the "cops are going around like headless chickens" and that "loads of fuck ups have after been made" in the aftermath of the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne (33) during a boxing weigh-in at the hotel.
The man the state says is Hutch was heard telling Dowdall that "these three yokes we're throwin them up to them either way", in what the prosecution has said is a reference to giving the three assault rifles used in the Regency Hotel attack to republicans in the north.
"There's a present them three yokes" and that he wanted "to throw them up there to them as a present". The accused also said he had to "push him" to get "them outta the village," he allegedly added.
The trial has heard it was outlined in a warrant that gardai believed a Ford Transit van was used to transport the Regency assailants to and from the hotel, that this van was stored at a car park at Buckingham Village in Dublin's north inner city prior to the murder and that the keys for the Ford Transit van were left with a woman for collection.
