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Wed 04 Apr 2007Failure to fly Tricolour brought drug lord downCustoms officers were alerted when drugs boat docked in Cork with no flag, writes Barry Roche.He may have had a box at Royal Ascot and was said to have been hobnobbing with some of Britain's finest, but it could be Brian Wright's failure to remember his Irish roots that led to the gradual unravelling of his drugs empire and his ultimate downfall.