Professional Assassin | 3
Kinahans Downfall
Nicola Bardon
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
James ‘Mago’ Gately was a man the Kinahan Cartel desperately wanted - so much so that they went for an overseas hitman to take down the Hutch gang boss.
This episode tells the story of Imre Arakas and his one day in Dublin as a free man, unaware that Gardaí were following his every move across the city.
The Cartel would go again at Mago, refusing to let him off the hook.
And we hear of another botched hit, as Garda wire taps take listeners inside a dopey hit team hired to take out Michael Frazer - a man dubbed ‘Mickey Nine Lives’ after surviving several assassin’s bullets.
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| 0:00.0 | In 2008, innocent Robert Delaney was shot in the head and the orders of a dissident Republican. |
| 0:07.0 | Why? Because he broke up a pub fight. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, brain damaged. He's neither living nor dead. |
| 0:14.0 | In a new three-part podcast by the Irish Sun, we examined a brutal crime, an insidious underworld, |
| 0:20.0 | and a family's fearless quest |
| 0:22.3 | for justice. And we meet Robert today. This is Robert is available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.5 | The following episode may contain some strong language. Episode three, to professional assassin. |
| 0:39.8 | And what about James Gatley? |
| 0:41.0 | Would you ever apologise to him? |
| 0:42.8 | No, but again, you know, I was arrested at the same time with James Cately. |
| 0:48.8 | You know, if I want to smack him, click him, I don't need a picture. People have the opportunity to say no with him. I don't need |
| 0:54.3 | digital. |
| 0:56.2 | People have the opportunity to say no |
| 0:58.1 | as well and their actions are still |
| 1:00.0 | their own decisions to make. |
| 1:02.0 | The Kinnahans murdered nine people in |
| 1:04.0 | 2016. Eight of them |
| 1:06.2 | linked or mistakenly linked |
| 1:08.2 | to the Hutches. |
| 1:10.9 | Eddie Hutch, Noel Duggan, Martin O'Rourke, Michael Barr, |
| 1:17.1 | Garrett Hutch, Dolly Douglas, Trevor O'Neill and Noel Kirwin. |
| 1:23.8 | They also murdered Real IRA Man, Vinnie Ryan. |
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