Famed Irish Australian rebel Ned Kelly’s remains returned to his family

He's been buried in Northern Victoria with his ancestors.

ned kelly was not a thug, he was a hero. thank God he can at last be buried in ireland.God bless

Nicopernicus your remark about Kelly is ill-judged and silly, you need to read a little more about the subject.

mr kelly should be given the full military honour of a military funeral,he was as much a patriot as anyone who ever took up arms against tyranny and injustice.he wanted to establish a republic,anethema to the the british crown,aspecially as he was a focal point for POPULAR RESISTANCE,IT TOOK OVERWHELMING FORCE TO DO IT.Hopefully Australia fair will soon become a proper republic.

A thug is thug is a thug no matter where he is buried.

The most historically reliable 'film' account of the Ned Kelly story was a TV series of 4 episodes called THE LAST OUTLAW made by Australian 7 Network in the 70s - still available on DVD. This gives some understanding of the privations of pioneer NE Victoria of the time and the events which lead up to the last and culminating twelve months of the Kelly story. This is the ONLY time they were known as a gang, or wanted for shooting policemen and robbing two banks and as Outlaws. MsO'Shea's short hand account of the story perpetuates an erroneous take of the Kelly outbreak and the historical socio-economic conditions which replicated Ireland of the same time: colonisation where the only productive land was taken by another Ascendency class. Read 'Ned Kelly - A Short Life' by Ian Jones or 'Australia Son - the story of Ned Kelly' by Max Brown. The Kelly Outbreak is history before it is legend, but it became legend because of the human drama of injustice, courage, frontier toughness, a son's love for his mother, folly, death, loyality and betrayal topped off with a fantastical plan of heroic imagination. Read the real story. Get the full picture, it's greater than the legend. It's another Irish story and its tentacles reach right down to the present day for all the descendents of the families brutally affected.

Ned is not returning to Ireland (he was not Irish) he is to be buried in northern Victoria with his ancestors. Kelly was a polarising figure. Some see him as a bank robber who killed police officers (some of them Irish). Others read his Jerilderie letter and call him a revolutionary (he wanted to establish the "republic of Northern Victoria".

I'm glad that he's being returned to Ireland for a proper burial. Now if someone would just please mail his skull to his family back home. Let's get a head count, pleasssseeee.

I'm a little surprised the Aussies gave up on ol' Ned so easily! Several of my friends from Oz were talking about Ned Kelly just the other day, he's still the topic of conversation among many in Australia even now. Anyway it's best that the family has Ned interred in Ireland, for sure..

It is best.

Perhaps it might be an idea to offer the 8,000 pounds reward for Ned's Head.

Colin Farrell played a member of the kelly gand in his first stage appearence in Sydney Austlailia at age 17.