Niall Gilligan cleared of assault

it’s the “not my Johnny” defense 😄

Oh well that's OK then if that's the case. Let it go man - the little scrote got what was due to him.

Scrotes are causing an awful lot of trouble in the Bridge for several years now, Guards not dealing with it, no resources.

It is a ridiculous situation that a kid breaks into a property more than once, vandalises it, and when the owner hits him, he’s the one who ends up in court. It’s fcking stupid.

The jury did the right thing. It’d be insane if Gilligan had ended up getting a conviction. The reality is Gilligan wouldn’t have opened his mouth to the young lad if he hadn’t violated his property.

I've already said this. They weren't the people who vandalised the place.

Imagine going back in time to when you were 12 and you came across a run down, dilapited building with your friends, did you never go inside for a look around? Plenty of places for you to have done it around the bridge, Newmarket or Shannon.

If Davey Fitz had done the same to people who did similar to the bells, would he have got the same credit as Gilligan?

Nope, not related to the boy at all. You never answered the question.

Gilligan was cleared of assault by the jury. That's it. Your hypothetical questions and butt hurt is irrelevant. Deal with it.

They won't. It's a derelict building and there is only evidence they caused very minor damage. If someone buys that building it will need to be gutted anyway.

Incredible how many men here are openly justifying touching kids in a violent manner. At least Gilligan had the sense to pretend it was self-defence.

I've caught kids on my property pulling up plants before. I told them they were on camera, and they stopped. The last thing I'd ever do is lay a hand on a child over something like that. If you're someone who fantasises about beating up pre-teens for the kind of mischief most of us got up to when we were young, you seriously need to take a good, hard look at yourself and your moral compass. Gilligan got off because of his parish connections, his fame and a system that that still bends too easily for the well connected and well regarded.

You can boot lick your parish hero all you want, I don't have a problem with that but condoning violence against kids is a problem. You need to reign that in. While Gilligan may get away with it, you certainly won't.

Plenty of people have already said it on this thread! GAA stars often get a soft landing in the courts, and that's no secret, it's discussed frequently on boards.ie so you can save the sea lawyer stuff for the barstool. Back to your cheerleading for him assaulting a child…. I can guarantee he regrets it completely and would take it back if he could. You’d do well to take his advice and ease off the violent fantasies.

Google it. There are loads of examples where GAA stars got a soft ride in the courts, drink driving, brawls, the lot. Don’t act like this is some unprecedented legal scandal just to get the thread pulled because you don't like the direction it's going in.

And of course he regrets it. Who wouldn’t? Nobody wants to be known as someone who hits a child, dragged through court, risk being fined or potentially jailed, and stuck with a massive legal bill. Only a fool would imagine Gilligan is glad of what he did, he clearly wants a quite life.

you really should take a long hard look at yourself and maybe change your username to something a little more flowery there Rambo 😄

I'm guessing your research is based on Googling alright, but in reality it would be very hard to make a quantitative case for corruption of the Irish courts in favour of GAA players based on Google searches. In fact it would be quite impossible.

You still haven't produced a scintilla of evidence that Mr Gilligan was found not guilty for any reason other than that was the correct decision.

Again, I have no idea of Mr Gilligan's thinking, he may well regret what he did, he may feel it was the only course of action available at the time, I certainly have no idea, you'd need to know him very well to know how he feels about it now.

De Valera used to say he just had to look into his own heart to know what the Irish people felt about a particular issue. It seems you just have to look into your own mind to know what Mr Gilligan thinks?

The movie character Rambo kept his violence for adults! And they were all bad guys!

We? You can leave it at that, your uncomplicated and simple arguments in favour of beating up kids has fallen flat on it's face as have your barstool courtroom accusations. If you truly think Gilligan doesn't regret what happened you're posts are deluded. One doesn't have to know him to know this, it's common sense.