A former Sinn Fein councillor has testified that alleged Irish gangland boss Gerry Hutch told him he was one of two men who killed an associate of underworld rival Daniel Kinahan at a boxing press conference in Dublin in 2016.
Hutch—who has been known as “The Monk” since murdered journalist Veronica Guerin gave him the moniker in the 1990s—is on trial for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel on Feb. 5, 2016.
Jonathan Dowdall said a few days after the shooting that Hutch asked him to contact dissident Irish republicans in Northern Ireland in a bid to resolve the underworld feud with Kinahan’s gang, but he said he knew it would be a “waste of time.”…