Irish Rugby Player Gang Raped a Girl in France

It was dealt with in the French courts....RTE covered it...they got sentenced to jail.....What else would you like?

Actually Coulson was with Leinster at underage and played for the senior Connacht team for a season after the incident occured.

Fair enough, didn’t realise he’d a season at Connacht

For this reason most likely: '

The trial was held behind closed doors, in the absence of the media or the public, at the request of the lawyers for the complainant.'

Certain other trials may have had a different outcome had it not been for a certain media circus surrounding it.

Rugby players do seem to enjoy their 'team' events.

There is a whiff of "our Conor got is comeuppance so we are going to pretend an unknown rugby player is in the same bracket" off this thread.

The clearer conclusion from this is that the French authorities are not afraid to go after rapists while the DPP here is more worried about the publicity of a failed conviction than actual justice. In the high profile Irish case you had a woman unable to give consent and the DPP did nothing.

In this country Coulson would not even have been brought to trail and Farrell would not have been investigated at all knowing to way our DPP operates.

Bottle, banana, crutch, wtf!?!?

All of these details were widely reported in the Irish media, including the crutch and the fact that the crutch belonged to Farrell. In Ireland, failure to prevent a crime isn't a crime in itself, although from what I read (in the Irish media) Farrell was far from merely a passive bystander afraid to intervene!

I fail to see the point of the thread when it has been reported in the Irish media for years, including when Farrell was dropped by Munster in 2022 when he was first charged with an offence. The IRFU took action as soon as he was charged, when previously he was referred to as just a witness to the crime and all of it was covered by the Irish media as soon as he was charged. Coulson wasn't contracted by the IRFU after he was charged. In general the French union has a few questions to answer as they're building up a few of these types of cases and the clubs over there seem happy enough to hire players with less desirable backgrounds or pending criminal investigations. Whereas, for instance, in the Jackson trial both lads were stood down from club and country by the IRFU as soon as they were questioned and then were formally let go after they were acquited... and got contracts in France and subsequently England where Jackson still plays.

This was a particularly sickening case, was absolutely shocking to read the details of this.

I was a bit surprised by the lack of reaction as well, only think I could put it down to was that the story broke at about 10pm on a Friday night, as well as being a week out from Christmas. The timing would have lessened the impact for sure as people are less inclined to watch/read the news at these times

I get that it featured prominently for a day or so in the media but I haven't seen the same outrage that we have seen with the likes of McGregor or the Paddy Jackson trial (where he wasn't even convicted). Perhaps being the nephew of a billionaire as well as being part of the Dublin 4 elites has its benefits, is my speculation. Absolutely shocking and shameful details about what happened. 14 years is fantastic to see as a sentence; your man will be going into jail around 30 years old and won't be out until his 40s; that is a very strong punishment and hopefully a deterrent to others.

Most people wouldn't know rugby players outside of regulars in the international squad. They might be big enough names for those who follow the AIL but the casual URC fan will never have heard of them.

As the protesters point out "not all men, but always a man". Men are the problem, without men raping there will be almost no rape