The funeral of infamous drug vendor Tony Felloni has taken place in north inside metropolis Dublin.
The transient service ended with the track ‘Love Theme from The Godfather’ being performed because the stays of Felloni, the son of an Italian immigrant, have been taken from the church. The track is an instrumental piece, composed by Nino Rota, which featured within the 1972 movie The Godfather.
Felloni, whose heroin dealing enterprise was introduced down by the Garda’s Operation Pizza, had served quite a few prolonged jail sentences. He died abruptly final Monday aged 81.
The funeral Mass at St Saviour’s Church on Dominick Avenue was attended by about 20 individuals. There was no eulogy and the service took just below 20 minutes.
A minimum of two of the lifeless man’s kids – Lena and Regina – have been in attendance, together with a number of youthful mourners. Cllr Mannix Flynn, whose sister was at one time married to Felloni, was additionally current providing his assist to the youthful individuals current.
The funeral cortege, comprised of a hearse and two funeral vehicles, wound its means by the streets of the north inside metropolis within the rain after the service as Felloni’s stays have been taken to Crookstown Cemetery in Co Kildare for burial.
{A photograph} of Felloni in his latter years and a single bunch of flowers adorned the coffin through the Mass. One personalised floral association learn ‘Dad’ and a bunch of crimson roses have been positioned within the hearse because it made its approach to the church on the road the place Felloni spent a lot of his life.
Lena Felloni and quite a few different youthful kin learn the prayers of the devoted, although none of these current provided any phrases concerning the deceased. The small group of mourners departed in funeral vehicles after the quick service.
The priest concelebrating the Mass stated that, in demise, “Tony has surrendered into the mercy of God” and “Christ now will meet him and take him”. He stated these current prayed “Tony was now at peace within the presence of the Lord”.
No demise discover for Felloni was printed and no funeral particulars have been publicly accessible. Nevertheless, on a social media submit there was a strongly worded request that any mates of the as soon as main heroin vendor keep away from the funeral. That request appeared to have been adhered given the very small attendance.
Felloni was one of many highest-profile sellers through the Nineteen Eighties heroin epidemic in Dublin and remained a key determine within the commerce for 20 years. He turned infamous, and was dubbed ‘King Scum’ by the media, when it emerged that he used a few of his kids in his drug dealing and acquired a few of them hooked on medication.
Felloni, who used heroin himself and was HIV optimistic, additionally had quite a few convictions for beating his spouse. He was launched from a 20-year jail sentence in 2011, after serving about 15 years, and was additionally beforehand jailed for heroin dealing, for 10 years, in 1996.
He had a prolonged prison file, together with for being concerned in organising prostitution, and was jailed for drug dealing within the UK, for 4 years, within the early Nineteen Eighties.
Nevertheless, whereas he resumed heroin dealing when launched from jail within the early 2000s, he was ill and in his late 60s by that point.
He by no means regained a foothold within the medication commerce, which had utterly modified throughout his time in jail and was characterised by murderous gun feuds between Dublin’s organised gangs.