Niall Gilligan cleared of assault

ah I see you can’t even take a joke.. you should go outside and get some fresh air .. ranting and raving on the internet with strangers all day is bad for your health 😜

After reading all comments and then reading and seeing the injuries inflicted on the boy in the independent today. I have to say what he did was a bit harsh. Dont get me wrong i dont agree with what the young lad did, a clip round the ear or a kick up the arse would suffice, but in this case I agree with his mother he should have been brought home and then spoke to his parents abput what he did or rang the guards and let them bring him home to the parents.I then would of got a quote and presented a bill for the damage. That poor child will be psychologically scarred for life.

https://m.independent.ie/news/stunned-shocked-disgusted-deflated-parents-of-boy-beaten-by-niall-gilligan-react-to-former-hurlers-acquittal/a1062355930.html

Why, you think the father should get a beat down also.

And the parents of the child could sue for damages. A civil court has a lower bar and they could make sure it was taken out of the Midwest area so that no cheerleaders were on the jury

Remember, this was a run down partially derelict building that Gilligan picked up cheaply and sold it for a substantial profit.

It was not as if the kid was doing anything that was going to make a difference to the condition of the building.

Beating a 12 year old with a stick, as much as many people in Ireland might have got the urge for any number of reasons - parents, neighbours, property owners, farmers etc- isn’t really the correct way to deal with antisocial or illegal behaviour.

I wasn’t a juror on the trial -I haven’t heard all the evidence- I do have faith in Irish juries overall - I’m probably surprised at the not guilty verdict given the injuries sustained vs his age vs the crime committed - but I do hold the right of defence of your property in high regard also -

I feel the bar should be very high before taking a case against a landowner protecting their property - while I don’t want it to become like America where blowing someone’s brains out who shouldn’t be on your property will be met with a medal award for bravery, I’m not interested much in providing too much protections to burglars thieves and what not either-

I don’t like to see any child hurt or suffer- but messages to those who participate in property related crime also need to hear a loud message

I find it incredible that most of Gilligan’s cheerleaders are openly celebrating him giving a child a cruel beating in revenge for trespassing in a derelict building. We’re not talking about some hardened criminal here, it was a child. The pictures that have now been released make it even more sickening, they clearly show multiple injuries all over a small kids underdeveloped body. This was a little boy, not a threat. Gilligan, a hardened 6'5" ex-athlete, chose to beat him.

The fact that his supporters gleefully admit it was a revenge beating or a "good hiding" and not self-defence (which is what his defence was) says everything we need to know. Even his most ardent supporters here don't believe it was self defence.

I understood from the article that it happened in the afternoon and it was daylight hours yet some people here say it happened at 2 am so what was a child doing out at that time

Which is correct

Simple matter of tens of thousands in legal costs if a case proceeded, for both parties. Only one party could afford, easily, those projected costs.

Unfortunately all of these cases went as far as they did, meaning unnecessary stress and expense for the people involved, before they won the cases.

As an aside, why did the Sunday Independent report that Gilligan is six foot five when he clearly is not. It’s hard to take the journalism seriously when there are gratuitous inaccuracies like that.

The defendant is a big enough man, but when there is exaggeration like that, it undermines credibility. They should have put up his actual height.

Neither Nally nor Rossa Phelan ever assaulted a child. There is no comparison, and it's unfair to tarnish their reputations by associating them with Gilligan.

It’s gas how anything that doesn’t suit the narrative suddenly gets labelled as ‘liberal lefties’ including calling out a grown man for beating up a child. This whole ‘liberal lefty’ nonsense was dragged in by MAGA Americans and is now being parroted here by gullible fools who think it somehow excuses child abuse.

So you think its ok to kill someone but not give a child a smack? How do you know Nally or Phelan never assaulted a child? As it happens, Gilligan didn't either.

Who told you I think it’s OK to kill someone? I don’t know if Nally or Phelan ever assaulted children, but that’s not what they’re known for. They were known for killing men who were trespassing with ill intent, and both claimed they were in fear for their lives. They have their fans and their detractors, fair enough. But Gilligan wasn’t up against a dangerous intruder, he bet the shite out of a harmless kid. That’s not cool. Even the most ardent peadophobe would stop at a beating.

Posts such as this, irrespective of opinion of the matter in hand, are very useful in identifying people incapable of coherent thought