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Podcast: Crime World
Episode: Episode 1934: The life and crimes of Ireland's first cocaine cowboy Eamon Kelly (Part 1)
Description: He was gangland’s Capo dei Capi - a mentor and teacher to violent younger criminals and a powerful godfather who held a key position in Ireland’s criminal underworld.In life, he paved the way for others as one of the first bosses on a sophisticated organised crime group. He mixed with paramilitaries and criminals and became the country’s first cocaine cowboy when he was caught trying to set up a mule smuggling route between Miami and Dublin.And even in death, he holds a unique position in gangland as his murder marked a chan...