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Mob boss Daniel Kinahan once described Matthew Macklin as his “best friend” but the former boxer discovered the downsides of that friendship when he was ...

I met him at the airport and from there we became friends. You shouldn’t be here,” another said. "I only met him after the Jamie Moore fight in September 2006. Christy Kinahan wanted a ceasefire as the killings were disrupting the drug business and he purchased 50 ringside seats for a Macklin fight at the National Stadium in Dublin and sent Daniel to host the night which was attended by crime figures including Dunne and his associate Brian O’Reilly and Fat Freddie Thompson. He came over a week after the fight. The friendship between Macklin and Kinahan began in 2006 and grew substantially over the following years.