New Dublin

New Dublin unlike the older city from across the water that it takes its name from, is a city at war a war that has been fought for generations between the different gangs, but it wasn't always known as New Dublin, in its earlier days it was called Little Rome, as it was mainly founded by the Italians.

New Dublin where crime never sleeps, except for Sundays & holy days of obligation that is. 

                                     
So how did the name change come about ? well as other nationalities flocked to the new world in search of a better life only to fine that the grass wasn't any greener & the slums became where most of them ended up, then like seeds in fertile ground the gangs sprouted, this lead to gangs fighting for bigger pieces of the action, & as everyone knows that's bad for business.

Away of ending the war that's what was needed & so it was that Jimmy (the nose ) O Donnell leader of the Irish gang came up with a plan, as the two biggest gangs were the Italian & the Irish & that's who most of the fighting was between, Jimmy's plan was that the two would play a football match' with the winners taking control of all the major operations.

Jimmy sent word to Don Antonio  Macaroni head of the Italian mob out lining his plan & asking for a meeting so that they could iron out the finer points, believing that the Italians would be more then capable of putting a team together to beat the Irish on any day of the week, Don Macaroni agreed to have the meeting.

As neither trusted that the other wouldn't try to turn the meeting into a hit, the meeting would have to take place in a neutral place & it was decided to hold it in a restaurant in Chinatown, so over a fine dinner they agreed on the terms with the winner taking control of all the big money business outside of their own area, the only exception to this was to be the chipper business which the Italians would keep control of no matter who won, a point Jimmy reluctantly  agreed to as long as the chippers would only use Irish potato's, with the city been mostly made up of a Roman Catholic population the chipper business was a big earner especially on Fridays which were black-fast days which meant you couldn't eat meat & the ques outside the chippers for a fish & chips dinner often stretched for blocks.

So a truce was called & the date for the match was set for a month's time, the teams could only be made up of players from each sides population & the officials would have to be of neutral origins, needless to say there was a lot of betting taking place on the outcome of the game & the odds for each side was fairly close, that was until the night before the game when after hearing that the Italians had somehow managed to bribe the match officials, Jimmy offered odds of 10-1 on an Irish victory, was Jimmy mad your asking yourselves giving such big odds on the Irish winning when the Italians had the match officials in their pockets ? well no you see Jimmy worked on the bases that the Italian players, been well Italians wouldn't be able to resist thrown the game to make some money for themselves.

What followed has got to be the strangest football match in all of history, with the Italians passing up many a golden change to score even when it was harder to miss, while the ref ruled out Irish goal after goal, with all of this going on the crowd of about 10,000 was starting to get rowdy, & as the clock ticked down to the finial seconds, one of the Italian center-halves turn & played the ball back to his keeper , who slipped as he came to collect it & could only watch hopelessly as the ball rolled into the net.

Fearing that disallowing the goal would lead to the Irish fans invading the pitch & stringing him up by the unmentionables, the ref let the goal stand & hoped he get the hell out of town fast while the Italian mob were still in shock.
So it was that the Irish got control of Little Rome & later got the name changed to New Dublin, but what of  Don Antonio  Macaroni  & Jimmy the Nose O Donnell you ask ? ( well if you didn't you should have ) A few month's after the game Don Antonio  Macaroni came to a sticky end when out inspecting one of his new business's he slipped & fell into a vat of toffee, he was replaced by his son Romeo Macaroni as head of the family, as for Jimmy he lived on for close on 20 more years, until one night while having his supper of crubeens he chocked on a sucking on a piece of gristle.

When it was later found out that the crubeens were from an Italian pig a new war broke out, with Sean Mulloony who had taken over as leader of the Irish gang ordering a hit on Romeo Macaroni, who was then replaced by his son Enzo Macaroni as head of the family, & there folks is where we have to leave New Dublin of now at least.

Disclaimer, Any similarity to any persons living, dead or half dead is only in the mind or the viewer & Nickel & Dime Productions take no responsibility for such thoughts :)

Designers note, this was an induction to what I hope will be the stage for many up coming releases, for a long time I've wanted to do what is thought of a gangster movies but I want to take a different angle at it.

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