Irv investigates scandals in sports -- chiefly, sexual abuse in Olympic sports youth programs and the public health hazards of football. Follow his blog for real-time reporting and commentary on these issues. Documents disclosed under Irv’s 2017 Freedom of Information Act settlement with the Department of Homeland Security exposed the quarter-century-long harboring in this country of former Irish Olympic swimming coach

George Gibney -- now the target of a federal government grand jury investigation (as is USA Swimming, the national sport governing body under the U.S. Olympic Committee). Details are in the ebook

THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES: What the Hunt For the Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in the History of Global Sports Has Told Us About the Sports Establishments and Governments on Two Continents.

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February 27, 2021
February 27, 2021

George Gibney Is the Top Story of Sunday’s Colorado Springs Gazette

The American immigration and criminal status of a former Irish Olympic swimming head coach, who moved to the U.S. after being charged with dozens of instances […]
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February 21, 2021
February 21, 2021

Relief at Last in Yet Another Irish School Abuse Story

A former rugby coach and assistant headmaster, John McClean, was sentenced to prison this week for his sexual abuse, across 17 years, of 23 boys at […]
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February 5, 2021
February 5, 2021

‘The World Is Watching on George Gibney’ … at Ireland’s Broadsheet

An adaptation of our article here yesterday.
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February 4, 2021
February 4, 2021

Why Is the Orlando Sentinel Missing in Action on the George Gibney Story? And Other Post-BBC Podcast Gibney Media Notes

by Irvin Muchnick Though I have sharply criticized the thoroughness, as well as the lowest-common-denominator quality, of the BBC / Second Captains podcast Where Is George […]
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January 31, 2021
January 31, 2021

Michael Henry, U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Legal Con Man, Becomes ‘Judicial Integrity Officer’ of the Federal Courts

by Irvin Muchnick Michael Henry, who held various nebulous positions at the U.S. Olympic Committee’s nascent and corrupt U.S. Center for SafeSport, and left the organization […]
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January 18, 2021
January 18, 2021

New York Times on George Gibney

by Irvin Muchnick Jumping off from last year’s George Gibney podcast by Ireland’s Second Captains in association with the BBC, the New York Times has weighed […]
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