Maurice O’Connell is a great great great grandnephew of Daniel O’Connell, one of the greatest Irish people of all time. There are many streets in Ireland named after Maurice’s ancestor – the most famous, of course, is Dublin’s main thoroughfare. But in recent years, Dublin’s O’Connell Street has become synonymous with open drug-dealing and other forms of anti-social behaviour, and last November, was where most of the Dublin riot took place.
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