The ending of ‘The Westies’ explained: who takes control of the gang?

The Westies has come to an end, but who takes control of the Irish-American gang in the finale? Find out below. Created by Chris Brancato and Michael Panes, the eight-part MGM+ series centred on New York’s real-life Irish-American gang the Westies during the early 1980s. The construction of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center promises a financial windfall on the gang’s Hell’s Kitchen turf, but tensions between its younger members and old-school leadership threaten their fragile truce with the Italian Mafia. J.K. Simmons stars as Westies leader Eamon Sweeney, alongside Tom Brittney as ambitious younger gangster Jimmy Roarke and Titus Welliver as troubled NYPD officer Glenn Keenan. The season concluded with its eighth episode, ‘The Irish Goodbye’, on Sunday (August 23). Watch the trailer below. The ending of The Westies explained: who takes control of the gang? Jimmy Roarke defeats Eamon Sweeney and takes control of the Westies, but decides to frame his former mentor for possessing stolen cocaine rather than kill him. Their relationship finally collapses after Sweeney orders Sean’s murder following his arrest on drug charges. Sweeney then sends his men to attack Jimmy’s crew at the...