TWO drug dealers took part in Anti-Drug Movement’s (ADM) first public demonstration last year.
The group was set up by Waterford republican Ciaran Kelly last year.
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Kelly has been vowing to take on drug dealers in recent months and his group is currently in a dispute with a Sligo drugs gang headed by convicted dealer Barry Young.
Since setting up the group, he has been naming and shaming people that he has labelled drug dealers.
Last week,we revealed how a grandmother said she was falsely labelled a dealer by Kelly, as she stood up for her daughter who had given him information on dealers, only for him to pass on a secret recording of the conversation to the dealers she named.
After further investigations into the group we have obtained a video of Kelly’s first public meeting in Dungarvan where he vowed to clean the town of drug dealers.
However, in an ironic twist, two of the people involved in organising the march are drug dealers.
One of the men was Keith Keohan (41) from Convent Lodge, Mitchell St, Dungarvan. In November 2013 – just months before the Dungarvan march – Keohan was convicted over a cannabis haul of €44,500.
Yet he was bizarrely involved in the organisation of Kelly’s first march in Dungarvan in August last year – just nine months after his conviction.
A second drug dealer was also in attendance at the march.
During his speech, Kelly said: “Everyone in this town knows who the drug dealers are.”
When the speech was over, a local woman heckled Kelly saying he was not helping Dungarvan. Naming Keohan and another man she added: “And the same two fellas in your group are f***ing running the town with drugs.”
Kelly eventually admitted Keohan was a drug dealer in an online post in late September last year. He declined to comment when contacted yesterday.
