How Well Is Irish Censorship Working on the George Gibney Story? This Well.
July 28, 2025“As predator George Gibney is extradited: what really happened” … Full Text From Ireland’s Village Magazine
August 17, 2025Irish Times: “”Man (70s) appears in court charged with dozens of sexual offences.”
Concussion Inc.: “Why was George Gibney — most notorious at-large sex criminal in sports history — living in Florida? And who sponsored his green card?”
by Irvin Muchnick
In 2015, I had a conversation with an Irish person who offered sharp observations about the country’s systems. This was at the start of my ultimately successful Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, for material from George Gibney’s immigration files. It was five years before the podcast Where Is George Gibney?, which would spur Gibney’s extradition back to Ireland this month to try newly risen allegations of scores of sex crimes against four girls he was coaching.
I was discussing with my interlocutor an August 9, 2015, story, by Justine McCarthy in the Irish edition of the Times of London, headlined “Swimmer says Gibney ‘gained visa in lottery.'” Chalkie White, the earliest accuser of sexual abuse by Gibney, told McCarthy that Gibney talked to him about angling for a visa in May or June of 1988.
“We were meeting to discuss the Olympics,” White said, “and he told me he had applied for a lottery green card. To the best of my memory, he said he’d got one. It stuck in my mind because he had just bought a house near Loughlinstown at that time and I wondered why he would be thinking of emigrating to America.”
McCarthy’s report continued:
“Between 1987 and 1990, 16,329 American visas were issued to randomly selected Irish applicants through one-off lottery schemes primarily designed to regularise the status of illegal Irish immigrants in America. The permits issued in 1988 were known as Donnelly visas, after congressman Brian Donnelly, who promoted the scheme.
Officially called the non-preference category five immigrant visa programme, it operated on a lottery basis. There were no requirements for special skills in short supply in America or for job offers from US employers. Applicants had to undergo interviews at the American embassy in Dublin and medical examinations, and the names of those deemed eligible were put in the lottery.”
On this point, my Irish interlocutor unloaded.
PREVIOUSLY:
“‘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
“How Well Is Irish Censorship Working on the George Gibney Story? This Well.,” July 28, https://concussioninc.net/?p=16196
