Episode 1: Teen Thugs to International Gangsters

The 2009 murder of Anthony Cannon signals the defeat of Brian Rattigan’s crime gang in the long-running Crumlin/Drimnagh feud. And so begins a golden era for Fat Freddie Thompson and his band of violent men, including Sean McGovern, who this week appeared at his sentence hearing in the Special Criminal Court. The bonds between these eight hoodlums were hard won, while many are related by blood or marriage, they also rose through the ranks of Dublin gangland together – where the number one...