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July 26, 2025More ‘George Gibney Whisperer’: What an Irish Observer Said to Me in 2015 About Gibney’s U.S. Visa
July 29, 2025PREVIOUSLY:
“‘Ireland secures extradition of notorious youth coach George Gibney who fled to Colorado in the 1990s’ — today in the Colorado Springs Gazette,” July 14, https://concussioninc.net/?p=16153
“‘As predator George Gibney is extradited: what really happened’ — at Ireland’s Village Magazine,’”
July 22, https://concussioninc.net/?p=16171
“George Gibney Whisperer, Part 1: Frank McCann, Old Head of the Swimming Association Branch – a Murderer – Is Back on the Streets of Dublin,” July 23, https://concussioninc.net/?p=16180
by Irvin Muchnick
Here’s a news release of six days ago from An Garda Síochána, the Irish national police, just before George Gibney – arrested earlier in the month in Florida on an extradition warrant, after 30 years as a quasi-fugitive in the United States – was arraigned in a Dublin court.
And under Irish law, in the words of Porky Pig on the old Looney Tunes cartoons, “That’s all folks!”
The most notorious sex criminal in sports history cannot be named in the country’s news media. Gibney is now “man (in his 70s)” awaiting trial on “sexual offences.” As the popular and surface-deep Where Is George Gibney? podcast would put it, he has “vanished.”
Nothing about Swim Ireland (née Irish Amateur Swimming Association).
Nothing about USA Swimming or the American Swimming Coaches Association.
Nothing about whether Garda ever picked up the phone to talk with the Tampa police or the Hillsborough County state attorney in Florida about evidence of Gibney’s 1991 rape and impregnation of a 17-year-old swimmer during a training trip there.
Nothing about the U.S. Justice Department’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section investigation of Gibney for his activities in chairing a Denver church group’s medical mission for kids in Peru.
Irish news hawks are officially silenced. Most of the time, they’re pretty much silent anyway.
What about American media?
The New York Times hasn’t even shared with its readers a congressional commission report last year on reforms for Olympic sports, including key recommendations in the area of coach sexual abuse. But maybe they can wade in on Gibney. After all, in 2021 the Times had a story headlined “True-Crime Podcast Puts Spotlight on Irish Coach Accused of Abuse.”
On X, someone points out that you can still find the real, untold-in-Ireland Gibney story in these chunks: https://www.broadsheet.ie/tag/george-gibney/.
