That military-style attack on the Regency Hotel, on Dublin’s northside, on February 5, 2016, signalled a new era for gangland in Ireland. After the Regency Hotel attack, the Garda Representative Association (GRA) said the scale of gangland violence was a “direct result” of the swinging cuts. The body of one of the victims is taken from the scene of a shooting at the Regency Hotel. The Regency Hotel attack had three bookmen, such was the scale of it. By May 2016, just three months after the Regency Hotel attack, gardaí had charged Patrick Hutch, the Monk’s nephew, with murder.

Source: Irish Examiner February 05, 2026 16:30 UTC