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Shane Kelly
Shane John Kelly born on 21October 1985 Kilkenny Ireland is a community and political activist. In 2009 he was jailed for 3 days for refusing to accept a district court direction to pay a court fine of 300 euros. He was taken to Midlands prison where he again refused to the pay the order despite having cash on him. He outlined that Victorian style justice system was in favour of wealthy people and against middle class society. He appeared on RTE prime time in 2011 and was interviewed by RTEs Rita O'Reilly. He had began his political campaigning for change after he was diagnosed with severe depression and was committed to making changes in his life and others who suffered from mental health issues. Shane Kelly acknowledge after anumber of brushes with the law in his early twenties after he left the Irish reserve defence forces that he was a alcoholic and went into treatment. Since then he has battled against depression and injustice. He achieved many of his goals despite his difficulties with mental health. In 2011 he met with President Michael D Higgins in respect of his proposals now the fines act 2010 as amended to allow people pay court fines by way of instalment. In 2014 he was selected by AAA now Solidarity to contest the local elections in Kilkenny East for Kilkenny County Council He later withdrew his candidacy as his grandfather Sean Kelly had a stroke. His grandfather Sean Kelly the son of IRA volunteer Jack Kelly from Kilkenny.

Shane Kelly now spends his time putting local politicians under scrutiny and is chairman of the Kilkenny Reach out programme. He has also given speeches and opinions on mental health issues and speaks openly about his experience and brush with death after a failed sucide attempt. He encouraged people to come forward and speak about problems and not to bottle them up.

His only daughter Leah Kelly was born in 2010. Partners Michelle Keegan 2005-2007. Daniella Beehan 2009 -2015 No spouse. Marci Murphy (talk) 17:20, 11 March 2019 (UTC)