Ireland

Alleged crime boss Gerry Hutch will win a Dail seat, says former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern

Transfers likely to carry controversial candidate across the line, former Fianna Fáil leader and Dublin Central TD predicts

Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch outside the Special Criminal Court, Dublin, after he was found not guilty of the murder of David Byrne at a hotel in Dublin in 2016
Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch. (Sam Boal/PA)
By Paul Ainsworth