The Irish Times: Tony Felloni, notorious Dublin heroin dealer, dies suddenly aged 81

by Pickaroonie

43 comments
  1. You have to be of a certain age..

    This person was infamous, a bogeyman in people’s minds.

  2. Nominative determinism. Otherwise, he might have been a simple carpenter.

  3. How sudden can it be at eightyfuckingone. No loss anyway, in addition to flooding Dublin with drugs he was a despicable creature. Couldn’t happen to a better bastard. 

  4. Can’t wait for O’Dwyers cheesy video of his funeral.

    If you know, you know.

  5. From wiki :

    “He enlisted his children to help him sell heroin when they were just teenagers and encouraged them to experiment with the drug so that he could control them.”

    Wow. What a legacy he leaves behind.

  6. Many families buried children cause of him including his own… a pimp as well

    Hard to believe he lived that long, wasn’t “suddenly” enough

  7. Dies suddenly aged 81…. Ah sure in his prime

  8. It always bothered me that people didn’t find a felon named Tony Felloni as funny as I did

  9. Tony Felloni?

    What’s next? A burglar named Peter Crime?

  10. Tony Felloni sounds like the name you come up with on the spot when the guards catch you drinking in a bush

  11. Oh no. Anyway, what’s everyone having for their dinner tonight? I would like some ideas.

  12. Unfortunately, he died around 50 years too late.

    Good riddance. Thorough fucking dog dirt.

  13. He missed a trick selling Heroin and not Macaroni.
    Could you imagine the radio jingles?

    “Don’t sit at home feeling all lonely, invite your family around and enjoy our Tony Felloni Macaroni and for dessert our latest ice-cream flavour..Tony Felloni Mascapone!.. You get no baloney with Tony Felloni!”

  14. Known associates included Arson Carson and Keefe the Thief.

  15. His mother. “Pure angle so he waz. Woul dnt hurt a file”

  16. 81 – is that REALLY sudden?!

    Or is that just another effort by a newspaper to sensationalise a headline. Numpties.

  17. Never heard of him before now.

    Reading that Wikipedia page…he was a bona fide sociopath. Evil through and through.

  18. Is no one going to mention that back in the 60s and 70s that he used to blackmail young Irish country girls who had just arrived in Dublin by getting them into compromising positions and then taking photographs of them and threatening to send them home, if they didn’t give him their Salary. Good riddance, Tony. 

  19. 81 years is not suddenly

    i thought drugs kill you early

  20. It’s crazy that he lived for over 20 years with AIDS. I didn’t know that was possible.

  21. [The Independent article on his death pulls no punches](https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/infamous-heroin-dealer-tony-felloni-dies-aged-81/a1065625227.html). A few choice lines

    > He didn’t care about the effects his drug dealing had on his own family with his children falling victim to the drug.

    > Tight-fisted and mean with his money, there were few tears for him when he was sentenced to 20 years, which he mostly served in Portlaoise Prison.

    >On his release in January 2011 there was nobody there to meet him when he left Mountjoy Prison Training Unit and he was driven into the city centre by a probation worker before fleeing into Temple Bar.

    >Felloni’s death brings close to a particularly sordid chapter in the annals of Irish crime.

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