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Prominent AAI official retracts allegations

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  • #2
    TheRoadRunner
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    Don't know the context of this. Please expand


  • #3
    drrunner
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    Wow - a retraction like that is serious stuff!! That will have big implications for the author of the document that was retracted (Pierce O'Callaghan) per the link. This retraction is a de facto admission that the contents of the document were false! (I think I remember someone about the contents being in the papers a few years ago). Clearly any organisation working with the writer of a paper that contained false allegations about someone would have to take decisive action or their own credibility would be ruined.


  • #4
    IrishTrackFan1
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    TheRoadRunner wrote: »
    Don't know the context of this. Please expand

    This article in today's Sunday Independent sheds a lot of light on this. O'Callaghan does not do or say very much without orders from Hennessy and McGonagle and this was his contribution to the financial nightmare AAI finds itself in now (January payroll was almost missed) and for a long time to come.

    It was produced on the orders of the Sports Council (per the High Court evidence from the Mary Coghlan case this included Sports Council input into the content of the letter that O'Callaghan finally produced). O'Callaghan emailed Padraig Griffin telling him he wrote the letter under pressure from a senior political figure who O'Callghan later identified as Patsy McGonagle.

    http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/legacy-issues-just-another-fine-mess-2558142.html


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