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Where Is George Gibney?

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    #182
    benji79
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    Trish Kearney who told her story on podcast will be on Late Late Show tonight


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    #183
    John_Rambo
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    Bring him home.


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    #184
    [Deleted User]
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    Was the episode where they confronted him (before the break) really as bad as people said? I stopped at that one as it was destroyed here and I didn’t want the experience of the whole thing ruined by that. Never went back to it after but was thinking I might.


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    #185
    Beersmith
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Was the episode where they confronted him (before the break) really as bad as people said? I stopped at that one as it was destroyed here and I didn’t want the experience of the whole thing ruined by that. Never went back to it after but was thinking I might.

    The better episodes were at the end.

    They tried to play the "hot on his trail" angle, but it was never really that type of pod which is why I think it annoyed a few of us.

    The latter half of the series is just more survivors coming forward and mark interviewing them really. So it becomes just an outlet for them to be heard,which is worth a listen. This is what it should have been sold as at the start really.


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    #186
    benji79
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    benji79 wrote: »
    Trish Kearney who told her story on podcast will be on Late Late Show tonight

    She spoke very well. I’d certainly like to read her book


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    #187
    generalgerry
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    Beersmith wrote: »
    The better episodes were at the end. They tried to play the "hot on his trail" angle, but it was never really that type of pod which is why I think it annoyed a few of us. The latter half of the series is just more survivors coming forward and mark interviewing them really. So it becomes just an outlet for them to be heard,which is worth a listen. This is what it should have been sold as at the start really.

    Yeah that sums it up for me as well. It seemed like the Miami Vice part of it was what they needed to sell it to the BBC, but the bread and butter of the story (i.e. the victim's stories) was very well done. And they certainly did the state some service. Hopefully this will lead to something tangible.


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    #188
    Hangdogroad
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    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-contact-us-authorities-about-former-swim-coach-george-gibney-in-latest-investigation/a250550243.html

    Hopefully he'll finally face justice.



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    #189
    Igotadose
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    Muchnick's take on the news:

    https://www.salon.com/2023/11/19/another-accused-offender-in-the-sports-world-sheltered-by-us-may-finally-face-justice/




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    #190
    Robbo
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121390737#Comment_121390737

    I see he's still getting things fundamentally wrong about the legal proceedings that led to his trial being prohibited in the 1990s. The Supreme Court never made an order prohibiting the trial. That court held that Gibney could seek to leave to bring judicial review proceedings in the High Court. The test for leave to bring judicial review proceedings that stemmed from that case (G v. DPP [1994] 1 IR 374) remains good law is cited pretty much every week in the High Court so can hardly be regarded as "controversial". That was also a judgment of then Chief Justice Finlay, not Denham as Muchnik and Broadsheet like to imply conspiratorially.


    He then went back to the High Court, which granted an order prohibiting his trial.



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