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Bomber the Pitbull Kavanagh, from Low Level, Drug Dealer, to Mob Boss, now doing 21 Years Jail, Humbled to a Poodle, alleged, Bomber would do a Deal.

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Crime World Long Read: Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh – from low-level dealer to Ireland’s most-feared mob boss (Part 1)

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Nicola Tallant reveal the rise and spectacular fall of Bomber’s empire

Mon 23 May 2022 at 17:37 UP DATED BY WATCHROOT AUGUST 2023

When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh was its first target.

A known drug dealer and with a string of convictions, Bomber was then running a lucrative business along with his cousin Gerard ‘Hatchet’ Kavanagh. They were dealing whatever they could get their hands on and making a pretty penny as a result.

Hatchet would be shot dead in Marbella in 2014, a hit understood to have been sanctioned by Kavanagh and organised by his then business partner, Daniel Kinahan.

But when David Byrne took a bullet meant for Daniel at the Regency Hotel in February 2016 — it changed everything and cemented a blood bond between Kinahan and Kavanagh that would set them in the sights of international law enforcement.

Now, in a Crime World special, we reveal the rise and spectacular fall of Bomber’s empire and why he became one of Ireland’s most-feared mob bosses.

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