Iron Annie: Love and tragedy from Dundalk - The Irish Times

Iron Annie is set in Dundalk, where there is honour of a sort among thieves (drug-dealers, mostly, but also hitmen and street-robbers, although that’s often incidental to the drug-dealing). “The town’s a bitofa hole – but there’s people from everywhere. Not juss Polish an Chinese like, but French and Australians and even people from Sligo n’all sorts a places.”

The narrator is Aoife from Mullaghbawn, who began dealing at school and is now part of Dundalk’s drug network, a participant in the meetings at Smokey Quigley’s bar where off-duty gardaí, local IRA men and approximately organised criminals meet to see to business.

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