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Episode 1359: Pub where Eamon 'The Don' Dunne was shot dead to become student apartments
22 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the significance of Eamon 'The Don' Dunne's murder?
And you see kind of the gang bosses who have tried to sort of like rule with that kind of iron fist in recent times, like Mr. Flashy and that, a lot of them are behind bars now, whereas like these criminals seem to have... It seemed to be a time where there was a lot of them being taken out.
As you mentioned there, like Eamon de Dondon, he was kind of under the guidance of Eamon Kelly and then he was killed a couple of years later. That's how they operated back then.
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The derelict pub where Eamon the Don done was shot dead has been earmarked for a major development. Planning permission is being sought to transform the Fossa house, which has been empty since the gangland hit, into purpose-built 249-bed student accommodation. Today I'm speaking to Eimear Rabbit about how a Cunningham cartel hit team carried out Dunn's murder.
I'm Niall Donald and this is Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com. So I was outside Fossa House actually the night that Eamon the Don was shot dead in 2010. It was a pub in Cabaret, a popular pub, and it basically never reopened really. Certainly never opened as a work and pub again.
But I suppose it's finally we have developments because I think there's been a lot of planning issues around it, but it's about to be turned into student accommodation.
Yeah, well, there's plans being submitted anyway, so it remains to be seen if there will be objections. But yeah, it's been, as you said, derelict since 2010. And it was the pubs called Fossa House. So they're going to turn it, hopefully turn it into a six story, 249 bed student accommodation.
Hopefully, is it hopefully? I mean, that's speaking as a Cabra native.
Well, I don't mean hopefully, but like, you know, is it better for something to be done? Well, it is better. We are living in a high housing crisis, Niall. You might not want rowdy students on your doorstep. No, no, that's not what I mean.
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Chapter 2: How is the derelict pub being transformed into student accommodation?
calling into people's homes, basically, and threatening their parents in many cases. But ultimately, between all of the murders and all of the debt collecting, he basically brought too much guard attention on the Kenyan organisation. And they carried out this murder. There were signs it was going to happen. A phone call, actually, to Gary Hutch at one point was...
There was, you know, it certainly seems to have been, the guards were aware of a phone call where he was indicating that something was going to be done. And the people that carried out this, or certainly were involved in this murder, were right at the top of the Kinnahan cartel.
Yeah, and they were later involved, like heavily involved in the feud as well.
Yes, very much so, and very much so involved in some of the more high-profile feud killings. Of course, there were people arrested, as you said, including James Magogateley, who, when you look back on it, the people that he, you know, the other people that are suspected of being involved in, they would become mortal enemies with Magogateley.
But of course, at that stage, they were all the one organization. Now, Gately He's never been charged in connection with it. He was questioned about it, but never faced any, I don't, nothing ever happens. He remains certainly innocent of that crime. But it was a particularly consequential murder, I suppose.
Yeah, absolutely. And I was aiming the Don Don on my right and saying that he was suspected of maybe acting as a spotter or a driver in relation to the Marlow Highland murder.
What was always said about Marlow Highland was it's pretty clear, and we've named them before, the people who actually went into the house and two men went into the house. And obviously Anthony Campbell was shot because he was a witness, an innocent plumber. But it was said about Eamon Dunne that he may have collected them in a car in the aftermath.
Now, you know, obviously he was never charged with that, but that was always one of the big suspicions. So, you know, he then took over, I think, because Marlow Highland had become such a target for Gardaí, he took over with the sort of stated intention of quietening things down.
Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What led to the planning permission for the new development?
No, but the students I'm talking about, they have to travel up and down because they can't get somewhere to live.
Well, OK. OK, well, we won't fall out over this one because there's plenty of other things to fall out over instead.
Yeah, well, yeah, true.
OK, thanks, Eimear.
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