Investigative journalist Irvin Muchnick talks to The 42 about his new book.
THE STORY of George Gibney and allegations of historical child sex abuse against the former Olympic swimming coach in Ireland is well-known.
The former coach spent several years in Colorado, then lived in Napa, California and is understood to have moved within Florida on several occasions. Advertisement “I’m not sure exactly what he’s doing now,” says Muchnick. “He’s very old. I think he’s just volunteering at a hospice.”Muchnick points to the work undertaken by Irish journalists Johnny Watterson and Justine McCarthy in leading the way in the coverage of sexual abuse in Irish swimming.
More recently, Gibney’s story was the subject of renewed interest in Ireland thanks to the BBC and Second Captains’ 2020 podcast, ‘Where Is George Gibney?’ “There’s a problem in Ireland, which doesn’t have a First Amendment unlike my country, so the press coverage isn’t quite as aggressive. “There were programmes engineered by Irish-American politicians, that put Irish applicants for visas in America, higher up in the queue than people from other countries in different places around the world.
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