Novelist, playwright and creative writing facilitator.
Neville's novels are edgy and full of dark humour, they deal with the harsh reality of working class Dublin.
Do you remember Johnser Kiely? He was the lead character in my first novel Jackie Loves Johnser Ok? Well he's back, every friday, giving his tuppence worth on anything and everything, as only he can!
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Label Actions... document.write("\x3coption value\x3d\x22new\x22\x3eNew Label...\x3c/option\x3e"); New Label... Publish Delete Select: All, None 1 – 4 of 4 Wrong Place Wrong Time Wrong Place Wrong Time If it wasn't so serious it would make me laugh. An innocent guy in Limerick, decent bloke by all accounts played a bit of rugger, gets killed in the so called gangland feud. It immediately comes apparent that the bloke was in, as the local gangland figures said, the wrong place at the wrong time. What does that mean? Wrong Place At The Wrong Time. The guy is walking down a street for fuck sake, how can that be wrong? Its time all this shite was put to an end for once and for all. A guy walking down a road is not in the wrong place at the wrong time... not unless he is walking in the middle of the road and a steamroller is coming along driven by a blind man. Walking on the path back from your mates is in the right place at the right time so lets not try and say it any different OK?Because wrong place at wrong time makes it sound trivial.
What made the shooting really sickening for me was the attention the papers gave to the so-called hardmen in Limerick. Papers letting them get on whinging that they don’t get any sympathy when one of their lot get killed. News of the World gave one low life four pages to regurgitate his self-obsessed crap. Wants us to feel sorry for him? Now I know in his own area some poor fuckers whacked out of their head on drugs would have to listen to him but for a paper to give him any time is disgusting. And then on Monday the Evening Herald show the same sad fucker flashing his fat bastard body covered with tattoos to his fallen soldiers. Soldiers, war... its a fucking disgrace to use those words in relation to those scumbags. People fought real wars, were real soldiers died and its an insult to their memories. And the police looking for witnesses! Don't make me laugh. If the government is serious about getting scum off the streets first thing to do is to stop filling the general public with bullshit. The cops know who did this, know everything about it and could pick the lads up within a week. At the moment they are no doubt lying low, but in a week they will be back in the city parading around the place acting like local heroes.
In the prisons the gangs are making great allegiances together when supposed to be doing hard time. Rumours around Dublin is that the Limerick Boys in Midlands Prison are running the place, all getting box visits without getting checked because they have the screws threatened. Sounds about right, screws would say they ain't paid enough to get involved with those boys.
So what's the solution? Get tough. Tell all the do gooders to fuck off and get real. When was the last time a drug dealer's house was broken into? Never. Despite the fact that in any given area he will be the richest fucker (with the most upto date telly, phone and a bundle of money and drugs) his house will never ever be touched, why? 'Cause he will find the fucker who does it and break him up that's why. So everyone knows not to mess with him. Papers need to take responsibility too, stop giving scumbags a voice. Zero tolerance should mean exactly that... fuck all tolerance, if it isn't then forget it and get ready for more innocent people being In the wrong place at the wrong time.