'My son Kevin Sheehy was killed in Limerick. I want his killer to serve his sentence here' 

'My son Kevin Sheehy was killed in Limerick. I want his killer to serve his sentence here' 

Kevin Sheehy's parents Kevin Sheehy Snr and Tracey Tully at a protest outside Leinster House on Friday as part of their campaign to keep their son's killer Logan Jackson in an Irish prison. Picture: Gareth Chaney/ Collins 

"I am so tired," Tracey Tully says. "From day one I felt so powerless, I was portrayed as another grieving mother, which I am, but I am also Kevin's mother. I had to drag myself up and question this because no one else was."

Kevin Sheehy was a champion boxer and Olympic hopeful, and when he was murdered in a deliberate hit-and-run in Limerick in 2019 it set off a chain of events which still rumbles on to this day. 

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