The whole operation was an elaborate cover for what was going on upstairs where Brady had assembled and maintained a terrifying arsenal of weapons for use at a moment’s notice by the Kinahan crime gang. Gardaí investigating organised crime had come across gangland arsenals before – the previous November, five firearms, including two submachine guns belonging to the Kinahans, were seized. In fact, detectives believe it was the largest organised crime arms find in the history of the State. It was this discretion and intelligence which made Brady, or Mr Nobody as he was nicknamed, so vital to the Kinahan operation. “These convictions are a very positive outcome for local communities and investigators,” Det Supt Seamus Boland of the Drugs and Organised Crime Unit said.

Source: The Irish Times July 16, 2019 00:22 UTC