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PREVIOUSLY: “USA Swimming’s Abusive Culture and Revictimizing Methods Near a Reckoning in the Case of Persistent Whistleblower Sarah Ehekircher,” September 22, https://concussioninc.net/?p=16251 “USA SWIMMING SETTLES SARAH […]

PREVIOUSLY: “USA Swimming’s Abusive Culture and Revictimizing Methods Near a Reckoning in the Case of Persistent Whistleblower Sarah Ehekircher,” September 22, https://concussioninc.net/?p=16251   by Irvin Muchnick […]

by Irvin Muchnick   As soon as changes in statute-of-limitations wrinkles for civil lawsuits allowed it, Sarah Ehekircher found a lawyer, Jonathan Little, who could help […]

by Irvin Muchnick   For more than a decade I’ve written extensively about the cesspool of abuse that has been the Fort Lauderdale Swim Team, whose […]

Perhaps unsurprisingly, on 14 August, the media relations department of America’s ‘newspaper of record’ declined the invitation to tell Village that there will be any addition […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Michael Phelps, the all-time swimming great, issued a public rebuke of the leadership of USA Swimming following the American team’s tepid performance […]

This article was originally published at Ireland’s Village magazine, on July 22, at https://villagemagazine.ie/as-predator-george-gibney-is-extradited-what-really-happened/. It is intact here, except for changes to Concussion Inc. style and American English […]

Irish 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 […]

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, […]

I deeply appreciate my induction into the 2025 class of the Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame. Below is the full text of the biographies of […]

This is a lightly edited version of the full text originally filed by me, on assignment, for the article that was published on the front page […]

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, […]

Irish 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 […]

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, […]