They're the global organised crime clan who started out in the Dublin of the 1970s stealing cars and handling stolen goods. ‌

So when the US Department of State announced rewards of $5million, almost £4million, three years ago for information leading to the capture and conviction of senior Kinahan figures, it was further evidence that this is a crime family now playing in the big league. ‌

Yet it all began in unlikely fashion with Christy Kinahan, born in 1957 into a relatively middle-class family, and whose mother ran a Dublin bed and breakfast. ‌

Kinahan started out on his life in crime in his 20s, dabbling in cheque fraud and linking up with other gangs.

Low-level crime was never enough though for Kinahan and, as a grim heroin epidemic swept his native city in the 1980s, he

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