They haven’t gone away you know… No sign of @Bandage tho in this clip.
He can’t pass the fitness test.
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I’d heard it was 5k in under 20 alright.
5 km in 19:16 is the target.
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WI was doing a bit of research on a fellow whose name crops up occasionally in connection with “the Troubles” called Myles Shevlin and this is what I came up with. In its own way it’s a tale that has some extraordinary features.
Myles Shevlin was born in Carlow in the late 1920s. His father may have been from South Armagh. He attended school in Clongowes Wood College and practiced as a solicitor in Carlow and later in Dublin. While he was active in Community organisations such as Muintir Na Tire, at some stage in the 1950s he became active in the IRA and at his funeral in 1990 Ruairi O Bradaigh announced that Shevlin had been Adjutant General of the IRA during the border campaign.
The trail goes quiet then for a decade or so. Then in the early 1970s Shevlin’s name pops up with increasing regularity as defence solicitor for Provisional IRA defendants. He’s at Sean Mac Stiofains side during his hunger strike. He then pitches up at the Cheyne Walk peace talks with Willie Whitelaw, ostensibly as secretary and note taker to the IRA delegation of Gerry Adams, Ivor Bell, Ruairi O Bradaigh and others, though I have seen a reference to him being the IRA quartermaster at the time
Nothing came of these talks and Shevlin carried on with the defence work including acting for Peter Rogers who was sentenced to death for the capital murder of Garda Seamus Quaid of Limerick in Cleariestown in Wexford in 1979, which sentence I believe was later commuted by the President to penal servitude for life.
Around this time Shelvin got into trouble for not following instructions from his clients to appeal a 12 years sentence handed down by the Special Criminal Court, for what appear to have been political reasons, i.e. That there was more capital to be made out of the fact that the defendants had been imprisoned after being tortured and beaten in a police cell, than there was to be made out of an appeal. A court case was taken against him and the judge sent the file to the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland who promptly struck him off the roll of solicitors for misconduct. I expect that he was a marked man by the legal and political establishment anyway and it could have been a case of any excuse.
He was restored to the roll of solicitors a year later, but in a restricted capacity. He continued to do defence work but the litany of PIRA defendants appeared to dry up. One of his cases at this time was to defend Johnny Rotten who was sentenced to six months in prison for kicking the bouncer and the barman of the Horse and Tram pub on Eden Quay. Rotten (otherwise Lydon , with family in Garryvogue, Cork) instructed Shevlin to appeal the severity of the sentence but must have been as surprised as anyone when the conviction was overturned on an appeal against the severity of the sentence, because the barman and bouncer didn’t show up for the appeal (!). Rotten who was attired in a black suit with a white shirt and a slim black tie ran his hand through his neat red hair and professed himself very relieved.
Provisional Sinn Fein split again in 1986 over the matter of abstentionism and Shevlin went with O Bradaigh and Republican Sinn Fein. He died in 1990 in his early 60s, survived by his wife and three children. In his last year he appeared in two lists in the Irish Times, the list of tax defaulters and the list of solicitors who were paid out under the Legal Aid Scheme.
He was a keen chess player.
The Carlow Cumann of Republican Sinn Fein is known as the Myles Shevlin Cumann.
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Its like an "On this day " segment from Friday evening Drivetime
RIP Vol. Shevlin
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I see he was in the scouts also in 1937 and was part of the first Carlow troop of the assumption -
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He wasn’t short a few bob either - cleaned up from legal aid. Was fined a sizeable sum of £1000 just before he died for failing to file tax returns.
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A Provo not paying his taxes, well I never.
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Being fined on the 80s for not filing tax returns was a rarity. The establishment was aftwr him
Retarded thread lionising retards. Cop the the fuck on.
Remember watching a programme on RTE on the murder of Garda Seamus Quaid a few years back. Possibly scannal. His old teammate from the 1960 Wexford All Ireland winning team, Ned Wheeler unwittingly harbored the murderer Peter Rogers, the night of the murder.
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Where did you get the bit about the Scouts and the Assumption?
Newspaper, pal … i’ll try and post.
Cheers mate
I see he earned £50,000 from free legal aid clients alone in 1990.
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