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.

Crime World, with Nicola Tallant, is a weekly Iri…

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