Councillor set to face court over traffic offences

LABOUR Party councillor Nicky Kelly is set to face court accused of a series of road traffic offences next month, including one of dangerous driving.

Mr Kelly, a member of Wicklow County Council, is facing a total of seven charges arising out of a road traffic accident near Rathnew, Co Wicklow, on November 20, 2005.

Mr Kelly, is well-known as a result of being wrongly jailed for four years for the Sallins train robbery in 1976 in a famous miscarriage of justice. The current case against him is due to go ahead on November 22 at Wicklow District Court.