'Whenever he was killed, it wasn't normal. I know that now. But up there at that time, it wasn't special Tommy, you know.'
Comedian Patrick Kielty has opened up about his experience of his father being shot and killed when he was just a teenager.
He was only 16 when his dad Jack Kielty was shot dead in his home village of Dundrum by loyalist paramilitaries in January 1988.Speaking to host Tiernan, Kielty said: "I think I thought that I was dealing with it, and I genuinely thought that I had. "Down minors won the All-Ireland in '87 and we got presented with our medals just before Christmas in '87 and my da was shot at the end of January.
He continued: "Whenever he was killed, it wasn't normal. I know that now. But up there at that time, it wasn't special Tommy, you know.
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