Daniel Kinahan’s childhood home no longer empty as new tenant moves in

The flat, in Dublin’s south inner-city, was previously described by sources as a “shrine” to Kinahan’s late mother, Jean Boylan.

Before the deadly Regency Hotel attack in February 2016, Daniel and his younger brother Christopher stayed in the property on occasions when they returned to Dublin from Spain, often for boxing events and gangland meetings.

However, neither brother has been seen in the Oliver Bond complex for more eight years and the flat remained unoccupied, which led to some senior gardaí privately questioning why the Council did not take control of it to provide accommodation to someone else in need of housing.

“Despite the cartel’s huge international property portfolio, this relatively basic flat has always been very close to his heart,” according to a senior garda source.

“Daniel still considers himself an Oliver Bond boy, but it’s doubtful at this stage if he will ever be returning to Dublin 8,” the source added.

The woman, who is aged in her 20s, recently moved into the flat in the troubled Oliver Bond complex and is understood to have previously spent many years living in Spain.

She has no involvement in crime, is not on the garda radar and is described as a “respected lady” who has no interest in conflict.

“She has moved in and all the indications are that she just wants to live her life,” a local source said.

The flat had been largely been unoccupied for more than nine years – since the death of Daniel’s mother, Jean Boylan, in May 2014.

However, two local women were involved in ensuring the property was maintained during all those years and, again, both are not suspected of any involvement in crime.

Described as a “shrine” to Jean Boylan — the mother of Daniel and Christopher — the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) entered the property and carried out a search of the flat in 2021 as part of an intelligence-led operation.

Nothing of evidential value was seized from the flat in that search.

The property was also the focus of a number of armed garda searches when Daniel and Christopher Jnr spent more time in Ireland in the years before the Regency bloodbath.

The two criminal brothers are the sons that Jean Boylan, who worked as a cleaner and had no involvement in crime, had with cartel godfather Christy Kinahan Snr.

Christy Snr and Jean split up when Daniel and Christopher were young, mainly due to the so-called ‘Dapper Don’s’ playboy lifestyle.

Christy Snr moved out of the Oliver Bond flats, while Jean remained there with their children. However, the boys remained very close to their father.

“The two brothers have always been very proud of their Oliver Bond heritage and the expectation is that they will be happy in the knowledge that their childhood home is now occupied once again,” a source said last night.

“On another level, this may be yet more evidence that the Hutch/Kinahan feud may now be over, with certain normalisations, such as this latest development, happening on both sides of the city,” the source added.

The Oliver Bond flats complex remains one of the most drug-blighted areas in the entire State, but the new resident of Daniel’s old flat has no involvement in that deadly trade.

Last week, it was revealed how a very close associate of convicted Kinahan cartel killer James Quinn is allegedly making tens of thousands of euro a week by running a major drug-dealing network in the capital’s south inner city with the focus of his operations being the Oliver Bond complex.