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Fri 01 Jan 2010Irish swimming in dock over paedophile coaches
ANALYSIS:Swimming is still paying the price for at least three decades of not tackling the problem of child sex abuse by coaches, writes JOHNNY WATTERSON
SWIM IRELAND will argue that the 6½-year jail sentence handed down yesterday to former Olympic coach Ger Doyle was the final act of the sport in cleaning out its locker: that his jailing for sexually abusing children was not another doleful chapter in the history of the sport but one that took place before resources had been put in place to improve child protection.
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