A gunman from Kinahan was rushed to hospital after being found unconscious in a prison cell

A Kinahan cartel gunman was kept under guard in hospital last night – after he was found unconscious in his prison cell.

The Irish Mirror has confirmed that Trevor Byrne was rushed to the Mater Hospital in central Dublin from nearby Mountjoy Prison yesterday morning.

Sources told us that Byrne – who is serving a 17-and-a-half-year prison sentence for firearms offenses and armed robbery of a bookmaker – was found unconscious in the cell yesterday morning.

Byrne, 43 – who gardaí have asked to be charged with the murder of Eddie Hutch by the Kinahan gang in February 2016 – was assessed by medics in prison before the decision was made to move him to the Mater.

It is understood he was transferred by ambulance yesterday afternoon and was escorted by a number of prison staff.

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Several officers guarded him at his bedside last night, but sources say his condition has improved.

“There were concerns for him in the morning, but he is not in danger now,” the source said.

Byrne, from Finglas, north Dublin, is one of dozens of people named in a dossier opened by gardaí into the murder of Eddie Hutch, 58, by the Kinahan cartel on February 8, 2016.

Eddie, a brother of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, was shot dead three days after the murderous attack on the Regency Airport Hotel in north Dublin, which killed Kinahan associate David Byrne, 33.

In March we revealed that as part of the investigation into his murder, gardaí from Dublin North Central Division had sent a file to the DPP asking for mob boss Daniel Kinahan, 46, to be charged with the crime.

He was one of about a dozen people named in the dossier, and Byrne was another.

The DPP is investigating the file, but sources have told us that gardaí are confident the DA will bring charges against most of the suspects – including Dubai-based Kinahan. Byrne was arrested twice over the shock murder but was never charged.

Byrne was questioned about the murder while serving his sentence in Mountjoy prison.

Byrne, who has 44 previous convictions, was convicted in 2021 by the Special Criminal Court of five charges arising from the armed robbery of BoyleSports at Applewood Village in Swords, Co Dublin, on March 19, 2010.

He was imprisoned for 17 and a half years.

Byrne, of Cappagh Road, Finglas West, Dublin, had pleaded not guilty to robbery, possession of a firearm, false imprisonment, threatening to kill and unlawfully taking a vehicle used in the escape.

He is now appealing against that conviction.

Gardaí have long believed he was a key player in the Kinahan cartel in Dublin.

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