Drunk Irish illegal facing 100 years in US prison

MakersMark · 08-01-2022 10:38PM #1

Proper justice in the US.

Here he'd get community service.

https://m.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/irishman-who-seriously-injured-four-teen-girls-in-horror-crash-in-us-admits-being-drunk-41220467.html

Atlantic Dawn · 08-01-2022 10:42PM

Maybe he will get some relative to go on Liveline and say what a grand fella he was until he got slaughtered with the demon drink and took to the road, it would be his first ever offence obviously.

Not sure what's more of a disgrace, being caught drink driving or it being revelealed you were drinking White Claw seltzer.

SamStonesArm · 08-01-2022 10:45PM

Be interesting to see what kind of sentence he will get. Then the victims will sue him for whatever money him and a few generations of his family after him will have.

Hopefully its a lengthy sentence

wonski · 08-01-2022 10:46PM

Proper justice in the US for illegals is easy.

Not so proper justice when it would be someone rich and legal ;)

People get sentenced to 5-10 years for way more than what he did in the US.

08-01-2022 10:46PM

British man it should read. They can have the bad press.

Atlantic Dawn · 08-01-2022 11:01PM

Don't know how anyone survived, fair play to the guy who ran out of his house and pulled the 4 girls out of the burning car...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkl0DjKd2DU

SamStonesArm · 08-01-2022 11:07PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118441782#Comment_118441782

Didnt even know where the place was till you made me google. Yup he's british .

08-01-2022 11:07PM

Bringing Donegal/Derry drink driving culture to America, while being there illegally. It honestly sounded like the type of accident that happens here regularly. Ah the Joys of Multiculturalism. At least the Yanks will give an appropriate sentence and then deport after(if he lives long enough). Reading about his antics it appears to have been a massive drunken bender involving different bars, a driving range, crashing into a parked car and 5 other gobdaws in the car with him. I wonder will they be deported forthwith(if not american citizens)

08-01-2022 11:07PM

Christ, incredible there was no loss of life.

standardg60 · 08-01-2022 11:18PM

Immediately think if it was made an offence to be knowingly transported in a vehicle being driven by a drunk driver would it have an affect on such scenarios.

Podge_irl · 08-01-2022 11:20PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058226762/drunk-irish-illegal-facing-100-years-in-us-prison

He hasn't been sentenced yet...

But by all means use this to suggest the American justice system is better than the Irish one...

Atlantic Dawn · 08-01-2022 11:27PM

Not his first rodeo so to speak...

A drink-driver who hit a speed of 114mph along unlit country roads during a police chase before the tyres of the vehicle were burst by a stinger device has been branded a "menace".

Shane Patrick Anthony Brolly (22), a joiner of Hass Park in Dungiven, ran off and tried to hide in fields before being located with the help of a police helicopter.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/drink-driver-who-hit-114mph-in-bid-to-flee-police-told-he-could-go-to-jail-38530459.html

ceadaoin. · 08-01-2022 11:30PM

Thats a really high blood alcohol content. He must have been absolutely hammered. He's not being unfairly treated because of his immigration status, Are we supposed to feel sorry for him or something?

SamStonesArm · 08-01-2022 11:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118441936#Comment_118441936

Yeah it's not like we can read about American justice versus Irish justice online. This is clearly the first time a law has been broken in the states sher.

sdanseo · 09-01-2022 12:08AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118441967#Comment_118441967

Looks like he skipped the country while waiting to be sentenced in NI. Was facing 5 serious charges, fled to the US, overstayed then did the same thing again.

https://eu.buckscountycouriertimes.com/story/news/2021/07/09/shane-brolly-neshaminy-4-dui-bridgetown-pike-bucks-county-accident-ireland-neshaminy-northampton/7889261002/

0.21 BAC works out to about 13 units or around 7-8 pints. They'd been at it for 6 hours, so more like 10-12.

They can throw away the key.

mikethecop · 09-01-2022 12:18AM

A brolly from the same parish as Provo Joe ,

well at least he will have the best legal defense out there

Driving gloves · 09-01-2022 12:34AM

Proper order.

09-01-2022 12:37AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118441936#Comment_118441936

For certain crimes it is, others not so much. But here its way too soft regardless of the crime.

09-01-2022 12:42AM

Remeber that gobshite farmer Micheal on YouTube or whatever he calls himself, killed someone on the back of his motorbike when drunk and was let walk free.

09-01-2022 01:26AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118442274#Comment_118442274

Isn’t that why he started his whole thing in the first place? He was badly broke up and can’t work anymore or something

09-01-2022 01:28AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118442358#Comment_118442358

No excuses for him, he killed someone when drunk.

09-01-2022 01:32AM

Quick, set up a gofundme for his defence.

09-01-2022 01:35AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118442361#Comment_118442361

Didn’t say that there was just mentioning I think that’s why he started doing it.

Would hope some of that money went to people affected by what he did of course.

MakersMark · 09-01-2022 10:02AM

The being drunk thing is not a valid excuse in the US.

Can't wait to see the sentencing.

silver2020 · 09-01-2022 10:17AM

His alcohol level was not overly high, so that cannot absolve him of being an idiotic piece of sh1t. He's just a typical Londonderry / Donegal scumbag driver who thinks they are invincible when on the roads and do not care about the lives of others.

A decent jail term must be handed out

Here's similar from donegal - he got just 5 years

https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0420/1211004-fatal-rtc-joseph-gilroy/

Should have been minimum 15 years

colm_mcm · 09-01-2022 10:30AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118442274#Comment_118442274

He didn’t walk anywhere for a long time. The big difference between what happened in America is that his passenger was willingly on the bike and was also drunk.