HE might appear to be just another drug dealer passing through the courts after he was nabbed with a consignment of cocaine.
But the story of Patrick Casey tells more about the criminal underworld than most.
A rising Dublin football and hurling star, his life was derailed through a drug habit and later when he was jailed for his crimes he met up with some of Ireland's most-feared underworld figures behind bars
Nicola Tallant talks with Irish Independent Crime Correspondent Ken Foy on the jailing of Casey and how his past mistakes finally caught up with him.