Niall Donald

So...

Christy Kinnan, look, there's no doubt about him being smart, but certainly that was said, that he only passed two subjects.

He would have gone to, it's said he went to Declan's in Cabra first and got expelled and then went to O'Connell's in the north inner city.

Now O'Connell's

Christian Brothers School, probably one of the most famous schools in Dublin.

My own father would have gone there.

People would have got a scholarship and it would have seemed to have been a really prestigious school.

Past pupils would have included James Joyce, Pat Kenny, the broadcaster, former Taoiseach Sean Lamas, PJ Marra.

Also, interestingly, and probably a relative contemporary of Christy Kinnan would have been Tony Gregory would have gone there, who would play a huge prominent role in the anti-drugs marches in the city.

So he would have gone, he would have, again, that would have been sort of a prestigious school.

But he seems to have not thrived.

And then I think we get into a bit of a grey area when he leaves school.

Yes, and that was a thing that he kept up, I think, through all his life, one way or another.

A seemingly clean cut businessman has now pleaded guilty to organised crime offences, including money laundering and cocaine dealing.

Mark Salmon kept in the background of one of the capital's most prolific organised crime organisations, nicknamed the Gucci Gang.

Today I'm speaking to Crime World's Ken Foy about how Salmon is suspected of taking over the gang's drugs business after pals Sean Little and Zach Parker were murdered.

I'm Niall Donald and this is Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com.

So in our business, Ken, it's not often you see a guy charged with directing a criminal gang and you go, who the hell is that?

And that certainly arose when Mark Salmon was initially charged because he's not one of those names that rings off the tongue.

I mean, if you think of somebody like Barry Young, we were writing about him for a decade before he faced that charge.