Say what you like about Daniel Kinahan – a member of a super-cartel that runs about a third of the European cocaine market and who was arrested in Dubai last month on organised crime charges – but at least he has never publicly called for migrants to be rounded up and held in internment camps. The same cannot be said for Gerard Hutch, who, as patriarch of the Hutch gang, was for many years involved in a bloody territorial rivalry with Kinahan and who is now involved in a struggle for the electoral territory of Dublin Central.

In a video posted to social media on Tuesday, Hutch suggested that the Government should close the borders and deport undocumented migrants, and that those who are in the country illegally should be “interned”.

Hutch made the remarks in an interview with Gavin Pepper, an independent councillor for Ballymun-Finglas, conducted in what appears to be a boxing ring at Corinthians Boxing Club in the north inner city. Pepper, a relatively prominent figure within the anti-immigrant right, asked Hutch for his views on immigration – “a big topic on the doors and across the country at the moment”, as he put it.

“Illegal immigrants,” Hutch responded, are “coming into England and France, and they’re mooching their way into southern Ireland, because it’s a freebie, and they’re getting paid. I think they should be all interned, they should be put in the Curragh, in camps, until they’re sorted.”

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