Socialite Fran Fennell lived it up on a rollercoaster of holidays and nights out with models and executives while selling vast amount of cocaine to the party circuit. And he made vast profits from a unique cocaine start up which saw him fly human mules from Ireland to Australia where he could quadruple his profits.
But the playboy dealer who was groomed by underworld killer Eamon ‘The Don’ Dunne and who supplied Dublin high society with lines of cocaine has lost it all after law enforcement on both sides of the globes cracked down on his business and seized his money and shut down his gang.
This month Fennell was told he will do eight years in jail for drug trafficking while his co-accused were handed sentences for their roles in the operation.
Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about Fennell, his background and his likely future after jail.
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Episode 438: Two hospitalised following violent attack at funeral of gangland victim Brandon Ledwidge
Episode 437: The gangland feud that led to the murder of Brandon Ledwidge
Episode 436: The crimes of prolific Cork heroin dealer John 'Keith' O'Donovan
Episode 435: Talbot Street machete attack - Is there a political crisis for Gardaí and the Minister for Justice?
Episode 434: The fallout following the Dublin Riots and the rise of the Far-Right in Ireland
Episode 433: David Jordan to remain in prison on charges of directing the new IRA
Episode 432: Remembering Ross McDonnell and his world-renowned photography exhibition on Ballymun
Episode 431: A night of riots in Dublin following stab attack on three children and one woman
Episode 430: The plot to kill James ‘Nellie’ Walsh
Episode 429: Cocaine and Combat - How Hamas backers Hezbollah are funded by drug money
Episode 428: The gangland murder of Brandon Ledwidge
Episode 427: Criminals turned debt-collectors Martin 'The Viper' Foley and Jonathan Gill
Episode 426: Whitney Hughes - the drug dealers daughter heading up an OCG in Newry
Episode 425: How the lavish lifestyles of gangsters molls are being used as evidence to put them behind bars
Episode 424: Ashling Murphy's family give harrowing victim impact statements
Episode 423: The life and crimes of CAB targets David and Christopher Waldron
Episode 422: Jozef Puska - What was his motive to kill?
Episode 421: The kidnapping of Don Tidey
Episode 420: Six Silent Killings - Larry Murphy and Ireland's Vanishing Triangle
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