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Mary Kelly conviction overturned after Six years struggle

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Friday February 25, 2011 14:10

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Mary's disabling of a plane at Shannon preceded a similar action by the Pitstop Ploughshares

The Court of Criminal Appeal overturned Mary Kelly's conviction this morning

The war in Iraq and Ireland's participation in it prompted may protests from outraged Irish citizens. Mary Kelly entered Shannon airport on a cold night in January 2003, not to protest, but to disable a war plane that was bound for the war in Iraq.

At her trial she pleaded lawful excuse, namely she hoped to save lives in Iraq.

The first jury was hung. A second jury found her guilty after the presiding judge had stopped her defence of lawful excuse being considered by its members. Judge Carrol Moran imposed a sentence of two years imprisonment - suspended.

It took four years of tortuous court appearances and the mountain of work associated with such appearances before Mary succeeded in having her appeal against the judgement heard by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

The appeal was eventually heard in July 2008. And the three judges pronounced their judgement this morning.

The judgement is welcome but the delay gives rise to many questions about the fairness of the Irish judicial system.

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Comments (34 of 34)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	It's been a while coming...	Seán Ryan	Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:56
2	Great News	Madam K	Fri Feb 25, 2011 15:24
3	Congratulations	Damien Moran	Fri Feb 25, 2011 17:47
4	Vindication at long last!	TD	Fri Feb 25, 2011 19:13
5	Justice is coming	Iyad Burnat	Fri Feb 25, 2011 21:08
6	Discriminatory Verdict of Circuit Court Judge Moran reversed in Court of Criminal Appeal!	Mary Kelly	Fri Feb 25, 2011 21:09
7	Lawful Excuse	Michael	Fri Feb 25, 2011 22:30
8	Thanks, congratulations, respect to Mary	AC	Fri Feb 25, 2011 23:00
9	Out of the frying pan into the fire	Martha	Sat Feb 26, 2011 00:09
10	Mary; Brilliant or What?	JS	Sat Feb 26, 2011 00:25
11	About time	Niall	Sat Feb 26, 2011 04:26
12	Congratulations Mary - may the nonviolent resistance to this war and solidarity continue!	Ciaron O'Reilly	Sat Feb 26, 2011 05:21
13	To Martha	AC	Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:14
14	At long last	cropbeye	Sat Feb 26, 2011 13:44
15	Great stuff Mary	Nick	Sat Feb 26, 2011 19:34
16	Congrats	Deirdre Clancy	Sat Feb 26, 2011 20:20
17	RTE Hush Hush	Martin	Sat Feb 26, 2011 21:18
18	Fantastic!	Vacy Vlazna	Fri Mar 04, 2011 22:01
19	No blood from the plowshares stone	Tom H. Hastings	Fri Mar 04, 2011 22:10
20	Congrats to Mary and Shame on RTE failure to report	Edward Horgan	Fri Mar 04, 2011 22:21
21	Date correction	Edward	Fri Mar 04, 2011 22:26
22	Congratulations	Rowan Steele	Fri Mar 04, 2011 23:12
23	Congratulations	Niall	Sat Mar 05, 2011 00:11
24	RTE et al = no expectations, no disappointments!	Ciaron	Sat Mar 05, 2011 05:38
25	no words	genny	Sat Mar 05, 2011 08:19
26	Congratulations	Arn	Sat Mar 05, 2011 09:17
27	ABOUT BLOODY TIME!........WELL DONE MARY!	karen fallon	Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:01
28	Bravo Mary!	sylvia - UK	Sat Mar 05, 2011 13:22
29	8 years later, US troops are still transitting through Shannon airport	Edward Horgan	Sat Mar 05, 2011 16:05
30	disarm now plowshares	Bill Bichsel	Sat Mar 05, 2011 20:22
31	Thanks to Mary Kelly	Kay McPadden	Mon Mar 07, 2011 07:06
32	Congratulations	Eric Snowball	Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:37
33	Warm Greetings and congratulations	Sarah Lasenby	Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:35
34	unequivocal victory by the People of Ireland	Mary Kelly	Mon May 23, 2011 13:19

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