{"id":114481,"date":"2025-10-11T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/114481\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:17:08","slug":"former-home-of-jailed-businessman-nathan-mcdonnell-on-the-market-for-e795k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/114481\/","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.europesays.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":114482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5599,5,5600,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-114481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-munster","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-regional","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}