{"id":72431,"date":"2025-10-10T20:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72431\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:10:09","slug":"former-home-of-jailed-businessman-nathan-mcdonnell-on-the-market-for-e795k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72431\/","title":{"rendered":"Former home of jailed businessman Nathan McDonnell on the market for \u20ac795k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The former home of Nathan McDonnell, who was jailed for 12 years over a \u20ac32m crystal meth trafficking plot, is now on the market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Located in Ballyroe, Tralee, the property is described as as \u201cmagnificent\u201d family residence, within a small cluster of four \u201cluxury homes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 3,800sq ft property has been advertised for \u20ac795,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The prominent businessman was jailed for 12 years following his involvement in a plot with the Mexican Sinaloa cartel to traffic crystal meth through Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4816533_7_articleinlinemobile_Screenshot_202025-10-10_20154522.jpg\" alt=\"The 3,800sq ft property has been advertised for \u20ac795,000.\" title=\"The 3,800sq ft property has been advertised for \u20ac795,000.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>The 3,800sq ft property has been advertised for \u20ac795,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The quantity of the drugs was the largest ever seized by the State, totalling \u20ac32.4m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">McDonnell was trusted with paying shipping charges in the Port of Cork for the electromagnetic separator machine in which the drugs were concealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He stored the drugs at his family business, arranged their onward shipping to Australia, and used his family contacts to facilitate the shipment. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former home of Nathan McDonnell, who was jailed for 12 years over a \u20ac32m crystal meth trafficking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,6999,43,1907],"class_list":["post-72431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster","tag-news","tag-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72431","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=72431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}