{"id":440029,"date":"2026-05-09T08:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440029\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:15:13","slug":"how-nathan-mcdonnell-hid-a-tarnished-reputation-behind-tralee-business-circles-it-was-all-smoke-and-mirrors-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440029\/","title":{"rendered":"How Nathan McDonnell hid a tarnished reputation behind Tralee business circles \u2013 \u2018It was all smoke and mirrors with him\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Former Tralee Chamber colleague of Nathan McDonnell talks about \u2018embarrassing\u2019 episode for the organisation\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nathan McDonnell.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/52da4e92-51b9-47ac-a0f0-85a124980935.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Nathan McDonnell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Nathan McDonnell was suave enough to sway minds and consummate enough to con the great and the good of Tralee and Kerry\u2019s business community over a three year period as President of Tralee Chamber Alliance from 2021 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Since the 45-year-old businessman was sentenced to 12 years in jail in February 2025 for assisting an organised crime group linked to Mexico\u2019s Sinaloa Cartel and the largest consignment of crystal meth ever seized in the State\u2019s history, conversations around the reputational damage to Tralee\u2019s business standing have largely been consigned to whispers in quiet places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tralee Chamber colleague of Nathan McDonnell talks about \u2018embarrassing\u2019 episode for the organisation Nathan McDonnell. Nathan McDonnell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,16585],"class_list":["post-440029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-stephen-fernane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}