Gerry Hutch on his second Dáil run, what he thinks of the current Government and the arrest of Daniel Kinahan

Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch will return to Ireland from Lanzarote in the coming days to formally register as a candidate in the Dublin Central by-election, telling the Irish Independent “the race is on”.

The crime figure (63), who narrowly lost out on a seat in the same constituency in the last general election, has also spoken for the first time about the recent arrest of his arch rival Daniel Kinahan in Dubai, saying that “karma” has caught up with the leader of the international crime syndicate.