Tom Humphries

[Owen Brannigan]

http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/tom-humphries-crime-trust-3662076-Oct2017/

[screenexile]

http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/tom-humphries-crime-trust-3662076-Oct2017/

There's a proper article that dickhead in the IT should hang his head for that tribute to a paedophile!!

[Owen Brannigan]

https://www.independent.ie/sport/donal-g-cusack-has-resigned-from-positions-at-clare-hurlers-and-sport-ireland-36257921.html

[Itchy]

A proper article
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https://m.independent.ie/sport/ewan-mackenna-humphries-walsh-cusackthe-shame-game-36259052.html

Them two men are a disgrace.

[macdanger2]

Do the RoI courts have the same facility as those in NI to allow the PPS to appeal the sentence from the judge?

Yes

[macdanger2]

Too lenient a sentence imo. Breaching the trust of an innocent child is one of the worst crimes you can commit and should be sentenced as such.

[magpie seanie]

A proper article
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https://m.independent.ie/sport/ewan-mackenna-humphries-walsh-cusackthe-shame-game-36259052.html

Them two men are a disgrace.

That's a fine piece. Cusack has serious questions to answer if he enabled Humphries to earn money after this all came to light as does Walsh. Shame on them indeed.

[macdanger2]

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/tom-humphries-acclaimed-sports-writer-with-controversial-views-1.3267087

Am I alone in thinking this reads like a eulogy of someone convicted of grooming a child? Humphries' mates in the media can't see the woods for the trees in regards to him.

Disgraceful article

[magpie seanie]

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/tom-humphries-acclaimed-sports-writer-with-controversial-views-1.3267087

Am I alone in thinking this reads like a eulogy of someone convicted of grooming a child? Humphries' mates in the media can't see the woods for the trees in regards to him.

Disgraceful article

Scandalous but a stark reminder of how the big shots see themselves as above the law.

[macdanger2]

A proper article
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https://m.independent.ie/sport/ewan-mackenna-humphries-walsh-cusackthe-shame-game-36259052.html

Them two men are a disgrace.

That's a fine piece. Cusack has serious questions to answer if he enabled Humphries to earn money after this all came to light as does Walsh. Shame on them indeed.

Excellent article from mackenna

[Syferus]

McKenna seems to get abuse here but he tends to talk more sense than most of the GAA journalists.

[armaghniac]

A proper article
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https://m.independent.ie/sport/ewan-mackenna-humphries-walsh-cusackthe-shame-game-36259052.html

Them two men are a disgrace.

That's a fine piece. Cusack has serious questions to answer if he enabled Humphries to earn money after this all came to light as does Walsh. Shame on them indeed.

What is the point here? That the GAA was misled as to the real author or that criminals should never be allowed work again?

[seafoid]

A proper article
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https://m.independent.ie/sport/ewan-mackenna-humphries-walsh-cusackthe-shame-game-36259052.html

Them two men are a disgrace.

That's a fine piece. Cusack has serious questions to answer if he enabled Humphries to earn money after this all came to light as does Walsh. Shame on them indeed.

What is the point here? That the GAA was misled as to the real author or that criminals should never be allowed work again?

I thought he was just responding to the section of the population that is outraged by the judge's sentence. The Tom Humphries issue is another polarising issue. 

Una Mulally also writes for the Irish Times

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/una-mullally-women-playing-rugby-do-not-deserve-to-be-mauled-1.3185277
WIrish media is obsessed with contrarianism and loudmouths. It is obsessed even more with the contrarian voices who are generally merely out to seek attention (the gay man opposed to marriage equality, the woman who thinks contemporary feminism is damaging, the "right on" person who wants to police the tone of rights campaigners, the "liberal" guy who thinks there's a conspiracy of "groupthink" or "consensus"). It's all so basic. It's all so intellectually underdeveloped, populated by people who don't realise that these arguments have been hashed out so many times before, and have the arrogance or just self-propelling cynicism to think that their hot take is unique. We've heard it all before. Yet these contrarian voices are being brought to the fore, even when the represent nobody but their own personal grievances."

[Declan]

The stuff around character references in the justice system is a strange one. I seem to remember Mickey Harte giving one as well to a sex offender?
That journal article is the best of read on the Humphries case 

[mup]

As a matter if interest what would peoples opinions be on Cusack training a juvenile team in a club following this? Would you be happy for your child to be part of a team managed by him?