A luxury house seized from crime boss Liam Byrne has failed to sell after a year on the market.
Number two Raleigh Square in Crumlin, South Co Dublin, went on sale on this day - May 27, last year - after the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) seized it from Kinahan cartel gangster Liam in 2019.
However despite the three-bedroom home, which was estimated to be worth well over €1 million only going for sale at €400,000 - no one has purchased the home - a year on from it going on sale.
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In a response to a query from this paper last night the Garda press office confirmed that the house had not been sold.
"This office understands that this property remains for sale at this time," a garda spokesperson confirmed.
The house is also not registered as being sold on the publicly available Property Price Register.
Our pictures show the home which Byrne once occupied still completely boarded up and with its front gate bolted shut with an iron bar, padlock and chain.
The grass in the front garden of the house is also completely overgrown - with every window and door covered up from public view.
The public advertisement for the house is no longer available online - and its sellers have not responded to any query from this paper to date.
Local TD Joan Collins - who is from the Crumlin area - says she supports calls for the house to be handed over to Dublin City Council - for public housing.
“I support that call for it to be taken into the council’s control. If it is unsellable on the market it would make sense to hand it over to the council and back to the public.
“It would make sense to give it over to the council because otherwise it could be sitting there to go to wreck and ruin,” she said.
“The longer that houses are left sitting like that, the more difficult they are to renovate and get back up to a level that people can live in.”
Byrne’s Raleigh Square home was upgraded with his criminal money to include a gym, jacuzzi and even a panic room.
The CAB, in its High Court proceedings against the Byrne Organised Crime Group (BOCG) named him as its leader, and also named several individuals as the beneficiaries of the group.
Those named in the proceedings included Byrne and his fiancee, Simoan McEnroe; his first cousin, Liam Roe; his associate, Sean McGovern; McGovern's partner, Anita Freeman; another associate, Darren Foster and his wife, Jennifer; Byrne's sister, Maria; David Byrne's partner, Kelly Quinn, and his parents, Sadie and James Byrne.
The High Court ruled that assets worth €2.7m - cars, jewellery, cash and the Raleigh Square home seized by CAB - were the proceeds of crime.
Byrne, Roe, McGovern and Foster were "all senior members" of the crime group, the CAB added.
Byrne, who operates out of Birmingham in the UK, has been elevated to Kinahan’s number two man, after his brother-in-law Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh (53) was jailed for 21 years for conspiring to import E36M worth of drugs.
Liam Byrne’s brother David was shot dead at the Regency Hotel attack in Dublin in February 2016 - a murder which dramatically escalated the Kinahan Hutch feud.
David Byrne’s murder was followed by a campaign of bloody revenge by the Kinahan cartel - which struck back just three days later with the murder of taxi driver Eddie Hutch.
The cartel went on to murder 15 more men in a war which has claimed 18 lives.
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