Introducing... Where is George Gibney?

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True Crime

4.7 • 797 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A famous Olympic coach charged with child sexual abuse never stood trial. Instead, he vanished.

Reporter Mark Horgan travels across Ireland, the UK and the US on his trail.

Credits

Reporter: Mark Horgan Produced and written by: Mark Horgan and Ciarán Cassidy Co-Producer: Maria Horgan Research and fact checking: Killian Down Editing: Ciarán Cassidy Composer: Michael Fleming Sound mixing: Ger McDonnell

Theme tune by Aaron Dessner

Executive Producer for BBC: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Editor: Jason Phipps

Where is George Gibney? is a Second Captains Production for BBC Sounds

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.1	Well, now to a very special person tonight, very special person in my life.
0:09.8	Would you therefore please welcome George Gibney? Thank you very much.
0:14.1	You can't just go along with the wave if you want to make exceptional progress.
0:18.5	George Gibney was a star in Ireland in the 80s and the early 90s.
0:21.8	He was an internationally renowned swimming coach at two Olympic Games in 84 and 88.
0:26.5	George, we've seen it in the papers recently.
0:28.2	You've been offered all these marvellous jobs.
0:29.7	You're not going to leave your Irish babies, are you?
0:31.7	And he was popular.
0:32.6	He was a mover and shaker amongst politicians with a mid-Atlantic accent, tan and dark-rimmed glasses.
0:37.8	I have got the offers that have been very attractive, but I really believe that we can do it.
0:41.2	With Irish swimmers here can make medals in Barcelona, and I want to stay here to make sure
0:45.2	that that happens.
0:45.9	And he loved publicity.
0:47.3	There's a few out there who wanted to stay.
0:57.0	But Gibney had a dark secret. Mr Gibney has denied the allegations of sexual abuse which were made against him in yesterday's Sunday Tribune and repeated by most newspapers today.
1:05.0	It was the greatest illusion that was perpetrated in sport ever. There was nothing about that man that was real.
1:12.3	George Gibney faced 27 charges of sexual abuse of young swimmers,
1:16.3	but never even stood trial.
1:18.8	Instead, he vanished.
1:23.9	I see somebody.
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