John McClean charged with multiple counts of indecent assault. This was @GemmaOD1‘s article in March’s edition of Village magazine
https://t.co/NWZvWb1Jff— Village Magazine (@VillageMagIRE) November 14, 2018
Yesterday at Dublin District Court, former rugby coach John McClean was charged with more than 30 counts of assaulting schoolboys at Terenure College between 1973 and 1989.
Mr McClean, a former director of UCD’s rugby academy, is charged with indecent assault on nine boys over a 17-year period.
The charges were prompted by work from investigative journalist Gemma O’Doherty, who spoke to a number of Mr McClean’s alleged victims in Village magazine in the past year.
The reports claimed some gardai were aware of allegations against Mr McClean for decades.
Ms O’Doherty covered the matter last night on her Livestream with court correspondent Tom Tuite. Watch here.
Terror-nure (Gemma O’Doherty, Village)
Rugby’s Dirty Secret (Gemma O’Doherty, Village)
Pic via Village
Well done Gemma O’Doherty.
there’s a lot of sick stuff being covered up in this Country
Reported in the Village back in December 2017
https://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2017/12/terror-nure/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL1nDdWBfcc
Midlands or Arbour Hill prisons for sex offenders. I wish they’d stick them in Mountjoy–see how smart and devious they are then. Since I’ve become a parent I’ve become extremely right-wing on such points.
I don’t know why a lump hammer to the genitals isn’t used to sort these types of issues
Because he allegedly prayed on the boys that had no strong male guardians at home. That’s what Id do if was a predator. I would say I was working late in the school some weekend, I would wait for everyone to go home and say I would lock up. Then, when the coast is clear, Id go through the filing cabinets to research my marks. Id try to build up a picture of each if my prays home life based on test scores , attendance records, disciplinary records, whos signing the homework and bold slips etc.. Then I would take a little road trip to see where each of these youngfellas live, get a feel for the area. Then (a little trick form the Catholic priest playbook): make contact with the parents on some false pretense. like, say I was dropping little Johnny’s jersey home that he left behind the other day. “what? its not his jersey” “oh it must have been one of the other kids…..come in for a cup of tea? sure ill pop in for one” scope out the home situation. busy single mother, no dad or big brothers…sweet! Go home , masturbate to child pornography for the weekend. Monday morning . Wake up to a new week full of new possibilities….. Little Johnny (the first of many victims ) has no protection or recourse because I’ve anticipated his every move. Lump hammer to the balls? By who? I don’t see any male family members going to see Johnny’s matches. If I think this is the day he might go home to tell his mam, Ill hop in the car and make sure I’m sitting in the kitchen having a cuppa and a innocent chat with his mam by the time he walks in. Standard Priest stuff really. People are stupid and cow to perceived authority figures all too often. Priests tells you to do something? you better do it. Teacher tells you to bend over? do it. Judge advises you as a juror to consider all the gossamer thin extenuating circumstances used to defend a rape suspect by a snake barrister? better say “not guilty”. Most people couldn’t find there own balls . let alone bashing a perverts balls in. And the perverts know it.
pat, whatever you are looking for, you won’t find it here..
You’ve clearly given this a lot of thought…
Pat loving the mdness and the details and you’re not far wrong… if you are at all…
If I’m ever wanted for doing something as deplorable as this I hope you, jess and your new detective agency is not on the case..
Glad to see you’ve moved on from that weird village where everyone acts all happy and friendly in the same way every day like a cartoon episode of the twilight zone.
:-J
I’d go further than that, almost ashamed to say
touch a child – you hang
yeah. It’s the one crime where I support the death penalty.
I couldn’t vote for the death penalty. But I’d happily allow them go into a prison where they could get killed. I can see the slight flaw in my logic, but hey ho.
well maybe I wouldn’t either if I had a emotion-free think about it
but in for life – never allowed return to society
So Andy is Pro-Life…Devils advocate moment…Would it be fair to say that you already did vote on the death penalty in the form of choice? Does that not count?
I’m going to get attacked now aren’t I?
It’s a moral morass.
mainstream media in ireland often seem to be months or years behind the narrative that history will impose – Climate, Direct Provision, Maurice McCabe, Sugarman etc etc.
I’m pretty sure all of those things have been reported extensively in the in MSM for a long time.
Also, would Village not count as MSM(?)
No, it tends to tackle issues that “MSM” has zero interest in
You mean despite it being a publication with a wide circulation and availble readily to the mainstream?
Come off it, its the MSM as is commonly understood.
I don’t think it does have a wide circulation. It stopped being audited by ABC many years ago. I think its most recent audited circulation in 2006 was around 4,000 (and that’s every two months). I’d be surprised if it sells more than 3,000, and it’s probably closer to 2,000.
I looked high and low in Waterford and Drogheda for a newsagent that sells it, no luck.
I really don’t think you can call it mainstream.
Gemma, Frank Connolly, Mel Reynolds, Ger Cunningham, Constantin Gurdgiev and guest writers are worth the €4 cover price.
& it’s the primary reason I buy every issue of Village (even though the huge number of typos do the magazine no favours)
BTW, your articles on Limerick are excellent
Umm, how exactly is the MSM months or years behind on Climate and McCabe?
+1
It’s a nonsense lazy comment to say that they are years behind on those topics.
Bill the force, Gemma, bill the force. You’re doing their job, girl.
If Gemma is right about this , I wonder what else she is right about ….
Vaccines, probably, amirite?
Oh you.*
*little poopstirrer
did she say something about Vaccines?
I meant Veronica G…
I’d say he’s devo he didn’t have the chief sports writer for the Sunday Times to vouch for his good character
I really admire the bravery of victims in coming forward and wish them well. It’s highly likely Gemma ‘s coverage gave more victims the courage to speak up.
Hope Gemma stops tweeting during Ireland rugby matches now #irlvnz
any investigation into others that were aware and may have not done enough?
Yeah, it was Gemma who brought the prosecution – nothing to do with the victims coming forward. FFS.