Nathan McDonnell left with suspected broken jaw after altercation with gangland prisoner

Nathan McDonnell pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin to drug importation into the Port of Cork and to assisting or facilitating a criminal gang to import crystal meth. File Picture: Domnick Walsh

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.