1977: Daniel Kinahan is born to Jean Boylan and Christy Kinahan. Kinahan is raised in the Oliver Bond flats in the Liberties area of Dublin.
2000s: Christy Kinahan leaves Ireland for Spain after being released from prison. He had been arrested in 1997 for fraud-related charges and was subsequently jailed for four years. From Spain, Christy Kinahan grew an international drugs operation.
2012: Daniel Kinahan establishes MGM, a gym that he co-founded with boxer Matthew Macklin in Marbella, Spain. MGM ultimately grows into a significant boxing management company.
2014: Kinahan’s mother, Jean Boylan, dies after a short illness.
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2015: Gary Hutch, a nephew of Gerry Hutch, is killed near Marbella. Gary Hutch had tried but failed to kill Daniel Kinahan a year prior.
2016: Gunmen dressed as emergency response gardaí carry out an attack at the Regency Hotel in Whitehall, north Dublin, during a weigh-in for a boxing fight involving MGM.
Daniel Kinahan was the main target but managed to escape. David Byrne, a Kinahan associate, was shot dead.
Following the shooting, Daniel Kinahan and his brother join their father in Dubai.
2017: Daniel Kinahan stands down from MGM, with business partner Matthew Macklin saying it followed “bad publicity”.
However, he maintains close ties to the company, which rebrands to MTK Global, and advises many of its fighters, including Tyson Fury.
In Dubai, Daniel Kinahan and his brother begin to develop a series of import-export businesses, while also buying up properties there.
Daniel Kinahan marries Dubliner Caoimhe Robinson in a lavish ceremony in the Burj Khalifa. He remains involved in professional boxing.
2020: Tyson Fury thanks and praises Daniel Kinahan for arranging one of his fights, resulting in backlash.
Then taoiseach Leo Varadkar says he is “taken aback” by the comments. Fury drops Kinahan as his negotiator two weeks later.
A week later, MTK president Bob Yalen says Daniel Kinahan was stepping back from boxing “to focus on other interests”.
“Hopefully this will put a stop to the negative press from Ireland that’s based entirely on hearsay,” he says.
Later that year, US boxing manager Moses Heredia lodges a US civil suit against Kinahan and MTK, accusing them of poaching his client in breach of US law.
2022: The US government offers a reward of up to $15 million for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of Christy Kinahan and his two sons.
MTK Global ceases operations following “unprecedented levels of unfair scrutiny and criticism” since the sanctions were announced.
2024: In October 2024, the Irish Government and the UAE agree on an extradition treaty.
2026: Daniel Kinahan is arrested in Dubai in April as part of a joint operation between An Garda Síochána and authorities in the UAE. He is taken into custody on foot of an extradition request.
In July, Kinahan fails in his final appeal against his extradition to Ireland.
August 2026: Kinahan is extradited from the UAE on a Government jet and taken directly to the Special Criminal Court where he is charged with directing an organised crime group between 2015 and 2017.
The 49-year-old is subsequently taken to Portlaoise Prison.
