Born in a Dublin hospital in June 1977, even as a new-born baby Daniel Joseph Kinahan was destined for a life of subterfuge, his father Christy recording his occupation as a ‘factory worker’ on his new-born child’s birth certificate. That indeed was true but, it wasn’t the full truth.  Christy Kinahan was a criminal, and a good one at that. Not good in a ‘decent crim who’d help old ladies cross the road’ kind of way, but good in that he was hugely successful at stealing from all and sundry. By the late 1970s he was an expert conman, dealing…

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