Larry Dunne

Laurence Dunne (February 1948 - 18 May 2020) was an Irish organised crime boss and drug dealer.

Early life Laurence Dunne was born in February 1948 into a large inner-city Dublin family of 14 children, growing up in Dolphin's Barn. and had served eighteen months in Portlaoise Prison for manslaughter in 1939. At the age of 12 in 1960, Dunne and his eight-year old brother Henry ran away from home and went to London to look for their father, before being reunited and escorted back to Dublin. armed robbery and driving without insurance. Like many of his brothers, he spent time in reformatories; firstly in St Joseph's in Letterfrack and then Daingean Reformatory. moved to a luxury home in Sandyford at the foot of the Dublin Mountains.

In June 1983 he was brought before the courts on drugs trafficking charges, after a large quantity of heroin, cocaine and cannabis was found at his Rathfarnham home. After a morning testimony against him he absconded. He was found guilty in his absence. He died in St. James's Hospital on 18 May 2020 after slitting his own throat the day before. An inquest at Dublin District Coroner's Court heard that a passerby had noticed Dunne, who told her to "fuck off" and brandished a knife when she offered to seek help. At the time of his death, Dunne also had double pneumonia and severe coronary heart disease.