The businessman convicted of facilitating Ireland’s biggest ever haul of crystal meth suffered a suspected broken jaw after falling foul of a hardened criminal in prison.
It’s understood that Nathan McDonnell, the 44-year-old former garden centre owner in Tralee, became involved in an altercation with Glen Thompson, a well-known gangland prisoner, at Portlaoise Prison in the Midlands.
McDonnell and Thompson are among six men who share a landing with each other in the prison’s A block, and are free to mingle with each other when not locked down.
It is unclear…