'Stick your blood money, Kinahan'

A SISTER of feud victim Michael Barr has revealed that Daniel Kinahan tried to apologise to her family and compensate them for his murder. 

-  MICHAEL O’TOOLE

Republican Michael Barr, 34, was shot dead while working as a barman in the Sunset House pub in Dublin’s inner city on April 25, 2016.

The Strabane native was executed on the orders of the ruthless Kinahan cartel over an unproven belief that he was involved in the murder of David Byrne in Dublin’s Regency Hotel – two months prior.

And now in an exclusive interview with the Shattered Lives podcast, Michael’s sister Noeleen has revealed for the first time how an “intermediary” later came to her family and tried to issue an alleged apology on behalf of mob boss Daniel Kinahan,

“Not too long ago I learned that an intermediary actually approached somebody and they said ‘Daniel Kinahan wanted to send his apologies and wanted to give the family money,” she said.

“They wanted to compensate the family and say sorry for the murder of Michael. So they were told where to stick their money – blood money.”

Noeleen told us that the person, who is a known associate of the Kinahan cartel, visited someone close to her family and issued the shocking message in person.

“All I was told was an intermediary came to somebody close to us, and they actually just said ‘Daniel Kinahan sends his apologies and wants to offer the family compensation.’