Is he Ireland’s greatest conman?

EVEN today, Frankie Shanley’s name sends echoes in the direction of Keith Finnegan. More accurately, his name seems written in invisible ink on the strange invoices that still pop through the letter box of the Galway Bay FM broadcaster.

To be fair, Finnegan cannot always be sure that Shanley, one of the most prolific con men of recent years in this country, is behind the invoices for peculiar items, but once bitten, twice shy, says Finnegan, who is also the radio station’s CEO.

“I had invoices coming in for stuff you wouldn’t use in a month of Sundays. I got a bill for two ton of coal. I got a bill for a ride on a lawn mower six years ago. I’m not sure if it was him though...”