A GLAMOROUS gangster’s moll who was jailed for transporting a handgun for crime lord Patrick Irwin has set up a new business as a dressmaker and stylist.
Blonde Deirdre Moran (29) has set up the company since her release from prison during the summer and is selling her creations on social media websites.
The pretty mother of one served a five-year sentence in Mountjoy’s female wing for collecting a gun for ex-lover Irwin from an associate of Eamon ‘the Don’ Dunne.
Irwin had a string of lovers in Sligo and Moran was one of his two ‘main girlfriends’.
However, Moran has now put her life of crime behind her, going straight and opening up a thriving business. These images show the pretty ex-jailbird modelling her creations, which are available for sale on Facebook.
The page, called ‘Dee Moran Dressmaking and Styling’, was set up last week and already has hundreds of fans.
It reads: “Dee Moran is a freelance fashion dressmaker both designing my own clothes and personal dressmaking for clients also giving any styling advice.”
The page has been liked by a number of ex-cons who Moran met during her time behind bars – including Michelle Bambrick and Kiera McCormack. Sting
In 2009, heroin addict McCormack (25) was given a suspended sentence for her role in a so-called ‘honey trap’ sting in Cork city.
She lured a man into a city centre car park with the promise of sex so he could be robbed by her bottle-wielding accomplice.
At the time of her conviction, McCormack was already serving a four-year sentence for an unrelated offence of assault causing harm.
In 2010, Michelle Bambrick was jailed for three years for her role in possessing €300,000 of drugs, which she kept under a secret panel in her bedroom press.
Both McCormack and Bambrick became friends with Moran when they shared a ‘house’ in Mountjoy jail.
During her trial, Moran claimed she had travelled 124 miles to Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, Dublin, from Sligo to buy a jumper for her son, as shops in her own town had sold out.
However, gardai told the court that they had “very specific” information about the collection of the gun and that it related to a former partner of Ms Moran, who gardai had significant interest in.
Detective Garda Paul Keane said that a surveillance operation was set up in west Dublin near the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre.
He said that after receiving information that Ms Moran, who was driving a black Opel Corsa, had the gun, gardai pulled her over as she drove on the M4.
Det Garda Keane said Ms Moran was observed driving into the Liffey Valley
Shopping Centre car park at around 12.30pm before going into the shopping centre for an hour. She returned to her car and was observed on her telephone appearing to look for another vehicle.
A Toyota Dyna van and Ms Moran drove in convoy to nearby Ballyfermot, where they pulled into a tyre depot.
The driver of the van made contact with Ms Moran and she then turned her vehicle around and drove towards the M4. She was intercepted by gardai in an unmarked car and was pulled over.
A search was conducted on the car and a silver revolver was found in a sock underneath the front passenger seat.
Moran’s ex-lover Patrick Irwin (33) is the head of a Sligo-based drugs gang.
