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Deep Deception: Ireland's Swimming Scandals
Justine McCarthy
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Updated Edition In November 2009 former national and Olympic swimming coach Ger Doyle was convicted of thirty-five sexual offences against children. This is just the most recent of an appalling series of child sexual abuse scandals in Irish swimming. Long before Ger Doyle was charged, renowned swimming coaches George Gibney, Derry O'Rourke and Frank McCann had become synonymous with some of the worst crimes against children ever to come before the Irish courts; Fr Ronald Bennett, founder of the Schools Swimming Association, was also charged with sexual assaults against his pupils. All these coaches, the most respected in the sport, ... Read more
Updated Edition In November 2009 former national and Olympic swimming coach Ger Doyle was convicted of thirty-five sexual offences against children. This is just the most recent of an appalling series of child sexual abuse scandals in Irish swimming. Long before Ger Doyle was charged, renowned swimming coaches George Gibney, Derry O'Rourke and Frank McCann had become synonymous with some of the worst crimes against children ever to come before the Irish courts; Fr Ronald Bennett, founder of the Schools Swimming Association, was also charged with sexual assaults against his pupils. All these coaches, the most respected in the sport, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The O'Brien Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781847172044
SKU
9781847172044
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Justine McCarthy
JUSTINE MCCARTHY is an award-winning journalist with The Sunday Times and a frequent broadcaster. She is also the author of Mary McAleese: The Outsider.
Reviews for Deep Deception: Ireland's Swimming Scandals
'a devastating read'
Evening Echo 'damning but compelling ... essential reading' `the best of the large crop of books by Irish journalists this year, it grows beyond its immediate subject to become a terrifying anatomy of the capacity for denial and vilification within any enclosed world
Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times 'bristles with anger, glows with compassion and asks ... Read more
Evening Echo 'damning but compelling ... essential reading' `the best of the large crop of books by Irish journalists this year, it grows beyond its immediate subject to become a terrifying anatomy of the capacity for denial and vilification within any enclosed world
Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times 'bristles with anger, glows with compassion and asks ... Read more