Michael O’Sullivan remembers the day in 1986 when he first encountered Christy Kinahan. Then a 28-year-old, unemployed father of two, Dubliner Kinahan was already thinking big. He was caught with more heroin than anyone had ever seen in Ireland at that time. Yet O’Sullivan recalls Kinahan “knew absolutely nothing about the drugs business” back then.
O’Sullivan was cutting his teeth in organised crime policing in Dublin when he and his colleagues got a tip-off that a drug deal was about to take place in an apartment building in the city.
