The man who headed the Garda’s anti-gangland unit today defends the decision not to have any officers at the Regency Hotel when the Hutch gang launched its deadly attack there.
Former assistant commissioner Michael O’Sullivan said: “Nobody thought anything was going to happen there at the Regency.” The force has been under criticism for not having detectives watching the spot when it was raided by the Hutch gang on February 5, 2016.
The attack saw Kinahan cartel associate David Byrne shot down at a boxing weigh in. But Mr O’Sullivan is unrepentant in an exclusive interview for crime podcast, Shattered Lives, which airs today. Mr O’Sullivan, who was head of the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau at the time of the shooting, told the pod that gardai had no idea an attack was being planned.
