Rory Gallagher - A dismissed case that was dealt with and brought to attention? Mod Note in OP

@bucketybuck, moving this over here as per mod note on the championship thread

Let's say there's an accountant about whom allegations are made that he stole money from a client, the guards investigate but no charges brought; fair enough he's not guilty.

Let's say you have done some previous work with him so he has some credit with you; then you need an accountant for your business and have the option of hiring that guy - you ask him about the previous allegations and he says "sure the guards investigated that, nothing was ever proven" and when you press him on it, he just repeats that statement rather than saying "that was all lies, I never stole a penny" - do you hire him?

If the first statement is all he can give me, I don't. It doesn't make him guilty but I'd still prefer not to take the chance with my business

Are you going to answer the above or not?

There is a precedent in the GAA for public denial of serious allegations. At the time of the X Case it was strongly rumoured across the country that Paddy Cullen was the man at the centre of the case. The day after he became aware of the rumours he appeared on The Late Late Show and clearly and categorically denied what was being said about him. He also gave interviews to the print media that weekend and very quickly cleared his name and restored his reputation.

Brian Kennedy and Ronan Keating did something similar when rumours were swirling around about them.

Yet, in this case, people seem to think that he cannot deny the allegations for legal reasons.

You're getting very tetchy there. Calling another poster "a strange lad".

It's a beautiful sunny Friday afternoon. Why don't you take a little walk down the park, and take long deep breaths. Good for a tense soul.

This is a strawman.

What difference does it make to whether he denies it or not?

If he didn't beat her, all he has to say is the statement I have repeatedly posted.

Why would he have to prove anything to deny it?

Abusing somethings tbf.

Yep he could come out and say all that. But what difference would it make? You and others will still find him guilty anyway. Maybe he is guilty, maybe hes not?

Or maybe he just wants the whole thing to go away, maybe because hes guilty of all the accusations or maybe because hes not and just want to protect his kids from the media storm without adding fuel to the fire.

Maybe he doesnt want his kids to see in public their mother and father going at it, maybe hes looking past his own selfish thoughts that you keep advocating "well if it was me id defend my name to the death", would you even if it meant putting your kids through more and more sh1t? Maybe you would?

What should he address? Every accusation on every single reddit/social media/whatsapp message etc etc. Then something else comes up and its "well he said he didnt do that or that other thing but he never denied this thing here". Its a never ending circle you get yourself in to.

Rightly or wrongly legal advice in these types of cases is that you dont comment over and above the actual findings of the case, simply beacuse youve nothing to gain, people who have deemed you guilty will still deem you guilty, ive no doubt had he said all the above you would still hold the same opinion anyway.

Trial by social media has to stop imho, if hes guilty and hasnt been found out yet, he inevitably will.

In fact, in all probability, she developed her alcoholism due to the years of abuse she received from the degenerate

Not as childish as defending a man who won't, for whatever reason, deny that he has bitten a woman and broke her ribs, presumably because of of some misplaced sporting loyalty.

Won't make me happy or sad.

If you believe that one shouldn't deny the most heinous allegations, allegations that if true makes one an utter gutter-dwelling scumbag, then you are a strange person indeed.

If a member of your family posted on Facebook that you were a paedophile, would you feel no need to deny it?

So.......you'd deny it then?

Exactly.

He hasn't denied it, his statement is available for all to see.

I haven't answered what question? If you mean "what about the kids, I did in a previous post.

He mentioned winning custody in both jurisdictions, but with him living in Donegal since around 2011, and them only separating in 2019, I imagine the family home was in Donegal at that time so I don`t get why he would have also applied for custody in NI. But even so, there was no investigation in NI until 2022 it seems, so I assume if custody was granted in NI it was before then.

There doesn`t appear to have been any accusations made against him or investigation in the ROI, even though his statement appears to suggest he was cleared in the ROI as well as NI.

In both jurisdictions his wife being an alcoholic at the time he appears to have been awarded custody with no accusations against him would have been enough for that to happen