free Nicky kelly

wendell borton

Just watching a documentary on tg4 about Nicky Kelly who was unjustly jailed in the 80's. Despite never being tried, and the evidence against him extracted by beatings, spent four years in jail.

Wacker The Attacker

plac spuc and the fca

free nicky Kelly and the ira

MagicMarker

Is he not already free then?

Choppersticks

Yes I hear you they beat the **** out of him big thick mullas with battens left him black blue red and green. There should be gardai held to account after the fact
NICKY KELLY WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME

Tramps Like Us

The southern state got its hands very dirty during the troubles too

IMO much of the problems with the Gardaí stems from the days of the heavy gang when they were given free reign to do what they liked and were unaccountable. Nicky Kelly was not the only one stitched up

mfceiling

I thought it was something you had to save tokens for.

Collect 4 tokens for a free nicky kelly....

Jawgap

".......with every £10 spent at Esso"

......as the graffiti of the time went.......

theKillerBite

Calling all Shinnerbots...

greenflash

Has he spent all the compo yet?

Wacker The Attacker

theKillerBite wrote: »

Calling all Shinnerbots...

This should get a few drunk chuckies out of the woodwork

wendell borton

Michael Noonen was minister for justice at the time, the arrogance displayed back then is still evident today, although things might change thanks to Sgt. McCabe.

Tramps Like Us

theKillerBite wrote: »

Calling all Shinnerbots...

Shows how much you know. If you wanna use lazy language like that at least make sure you are accurate first

Nicky Kelly was never affiliated with SF or the IRA. He was a member of Official Sinn Féin/Workers party and later the IRSP. Then after he got out of jail he was a member and county councilor for the labour party, until he left them in 2011 and is now an independent county councillor in Wicklow

Nodin

wendell borton wrote: »

Michael Noonen was minister for justice at the time, the arrogance displayed back then is still evident today, although things might change thanks to Sgt. McCabe.

As any form of Republican, you can have scant hope for justice from a blueshirt.

roy rodgers

I remember in the 80s when I was just a young lad and every wall in the area had "free nicky Kelly" on it..
I was down the country last year driving through Kilkenny or Waterford and seen the same graffiti on the a wall. fair paly to that painted for passing the test of time!

Shakespeare's Sister

Tramps Like Us wrote: »

Shows how much you know. If you wanna use lazy language like that at least make sure you are accurate first

Nicky Kelly was never affiliated with SF or the IRA. He was a member of Official Sinn Féin/Workers party and later the IRSP. Then after he got out of jail he was a member and county councilor for the labour party, until he left them in 2011 and is now an independent county councillor in Wicklow

But... but they had to be the first to say "shinnerbot", you gotta understand how vital this is to some people!

Banjo String

theKillerBite wrote: »

Calling all Shinnerbots...

Epic fail.

moxin

Jesus, thats an very old case to bring up on boards

donegal__road

I remember 'Free Nicky Kelly' in giant white lettering written across the side of Ben Bulben in the early 80s.

Local men used to abseil down the side of Ben Bulben at night to paint the grass with white-wash.

Hootanany

With every box of cornflakes
is what i remember

Annasopra

Hootanany wrote: »

With every box of cornflakes
is what i remember

Yeah I remember hearing that.

Nickys still around but he was very sick in the last year or so. I had a lot of time for him but life circumstances have not gone well for him in recent years.

DazMarz

Bumped into Nicky at Áras an Chontae in Wicklow Town not so long ago. He's always a nice guy, but he's still smoking heavily.

Always struck me as a genuine person. Was unlucky in the mid-90's when he was beaten to a Dáil seat by Mildred Fox.

porsche959

Tramps Like Us wrote: »

Shows how much you know. If you wanna use lazy language like that at least make sure you are accurate first

Nicky Kelly was never affiliated with SF or the IRA. He was a member of Official Sinn Féin/Workers party and later the IRSP. Then after he got out of jail he was a member and county councilor for the labour party, until he left them in 2011 and is now an independent county councillor in Wicklow

Leave your fancy facts and logic out of this, we're on a witchhunt here!

Also, Jean McConville Jean McConville Jean McConville Jean McConville Jean McConville!!!

bumper234

wendell borton wrote: »

Just watching a documentary on tg4 about Nicky Kelly who was unjustly jailed in the 80's. Despite never being tried, and the evidence against him extracted by beatings, spent four years in jail.

There are lads in Guantanamo bay right now who have been there 10+ years who went through worse and will never get a penny for it. Start a thread on that instead of something that happened nearly 30 years ago.

MRnotlob606

Some people just always have an axe to grind with anybody who holds republican sympathies.

porsche959

bumper234 wrote: »

There are lads in Guantanamo bay right now who have been there 10+ years who went through worse and will never get a penny for it. Start a thread on that instead of something that happened nearly 30 years ago.

Interesting how some posters react to the slightest attempt to raise issues of establishment injustice and corruption in Ireland.

fred funk }{

DazMarz wrote: »

Bumped into Nicky at Áras an Chontae in Wicklow Town not so long ago. He's always a nice guy, but he's still smoking heavily.

Always struck me as a genuine person. Was unlucky in the mid-90's when he was beaten to a Dáil seat by Mildred Fox.

Yeah, looks like a heart attack waiting to happen.

Shakespeare's Sister

bumper234 wrote: »

There are lads in Guantanamo bay right now who have been there 10+ years who went through worse and will never get a penny for it. Start a thread on that instead of something that happened nearly 30 years ago.

Wtf?
Every thread without fail of this nature someone has to come along and whatabout.
What's the issue with them starting a thread on this topic? Why should they start a thread on a different topic that's not this topic, and why don't you start such a thread so?

wazky

bumper234 wrote: »

There are lads in Guantanamo bay right now who have been there 10+ years who went through worse and will never get a penny for it. Start a thread on that instead of something that happened nearly 30 years ago.

Is there no thread you can leave alone and not try push your tired and boring agenda on?

donegal__road

bumper234 wrote: »

There are lads in Guantanamo bay right now who have been there 10+ years who went through worse and will never get a penny for it. Start a thread on that instead of something that happened nearly 30 years ago.

WW2 started more than 30 years ago, and there have been plenty of threads on that over the years.

The moon landing was more then 30 years ago and there ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,,

The 1916 Rising occurred more than 30 years ago, and there have ,, ,, ,, ,, ,,

poorly articulated point Bumper.. just sayin

Arthur Beesley

mfceiling wrote: »

I thought it was something you had to save tokens for.

Collect 4 tokens for a free nicky kelly....

Free a Nipper while you are at it.

Arthur Beesley

bumper234 wrote: »

There are lads in Guantanamo bay right now who have been there 10+ years who went through worse and will never get a penny for it. Start a thread on that instead of something that happened nearly 30 years ago.

Lucky for them. If they were out they'd have probably blown themselves up by now.