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POD HIT

Irish Sun’s Kinahans podcast smashes through one MILLION downloads mark after topping charts

  • Published: 15:45, 2 Aug 2023
  • Updated: 15:45, 2 Aug 2

THE IRISH Sun’s latest true crime podcast has smashed through the 1,000,000 downloads mark.

The Kinahans, which tells how Ireland’s most feared crime family became a worldwide cartel, has regularly topped the Apple and Spotify charts since its release.

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Thumbnail / cover – The Kinahan’s podcast with Damien LaneCredit: Not known, clear with picture desk

The 10-part series has now been downloaded 1,075,000 times.

Ireland listeners were the most eager with 670,000 downloads, while the UK has generated over 250,000.

The highly rated show has an average score of 4.8 out of 5 across 600 reviews on Apple.

Hosted by The Irish Sun’s own Damien Lane, produced by Urban Media Head of Podcasting Ian Doyle, the series features expert analysis from Irish Sun Crime Editor Stephen Breen and reporter Michael Doyle.

Inside Kinahan mob - from heroin smuggler to €1bn empire & war that killed 18

Irish Sun Editor Kieran McDaid said: “Hitting the million milestone is an incredible feat and the podcast’s success is tribute to a brilliant team effort.

“From editorial in the Irish Sun and our colleagues in Urban Media who helped produce it, to Marketing and Wireless who helped promote it, this project shows that we can drive hugely successful projects by working together.”

Fans have left glowing tributes of the “informative and concise” series, with some claiming the “brilliantly” crafted piece is a “must-listen”.

The podcast series tells of gang patriarch Christy Kinahan’s rise from a low-level fraudster to leader of the global crime organisation.

It details the rise of the Kinahan cartel and its 40-year history of violence and mayhem.

The Dublin drug cartel went from Christy Kinahan’s early days as a heroin smuggler to become one of the most sophisticated crime organisations in the world, now operated by his sons Daniel and Christy Jr.

Daniel, 45, followed in his dad’s footsteps to become a drug-peddling gangster, moving to Spain with other gang members in the mid-noughties to build the next generation of the empire.

The Hutch/Kinahan feud shocked the nation and launched two Irish criminal families into a bloody war that left 18 people dead.

And in the final episode of the series, The Irish Sun’s Damien Lane gives listeners an in-depth analysis of the Cartel’s new found links with terror gangs like Hezbollah and rouge state Iran.

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