{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/6572f9332442fa00129400a1?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Best of the BelTel: Gerard Mackin, the Belfast-born Kinahan enforcer the criminal underworld fears","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/1702033770526-b670e1d3acf33e16887648827749e975.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Gerard Mackin is the six-foot-tall gangland enforcer who is feared from the Falls to Limerick That is not surprising when you consider he was convicted of nailing another person to a floor – with a nail gun.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>He has been in the Continuity IRA and in INLA. He was given a one-million-euro contract by the Kinahan crime clan to take out their arch-rival Gerry Hutch.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;Born in west Belfast, Gerard Mackin’s crime CV is formidable and his earned him the reputation as one of the most violent criminals in Ireland.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;The Belfast Telegraph’s crime correspondent Allison Morris tells his story.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Belfast Telegraph"}