Mrs Maire Cunningham has four children, all swimmers in the club where convicted paedophile Derry O'Rourke was a coach. While her children were not abused, she was one of a group of parents, including those of victims, who became concerned about the inactivity of the Irish Amateur Swimming Association when allegations about O'Rourke's activities first came to light six years ago.
Mrs Cunningham is one of the group of parents and victims who went to see the Minister for Tourism and Sport in February this year seeking a judicial inquiry into the allegations of sex abuse in swimming.
Derry O'Rourke had just, finally, been convicted and sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment, and they wanted to know why it had all taken so long, and why the people they felt had protected him were still in charge of the IASA.
In the end, Dr McDaid decided to set up, not a judicial, but an independent inquiry, under the chairmanship of Dr Roderick Murphy SC. This would not be able to compel witnesses, and its terms of reference were restricted to the IASA and its Leinster branch.
Yesterday morning some of the parents and a victim were brought into the Attorney General's office, accompanied by their solicitor, to see Dr Murphy's report of his inquiry, which had just been presented to the Minister. They were not allowed to take it away, as it had not yet been presented to the Oireachtas.
"We feel disappointed and frustrated," Mrs Cunningham told The Irish Times. "We feel it was not really the way to go about it. It had very limited terms of reference. It could not compel witnesses to appear. There are some inaccuracies in the report, some statements we know to be untrue, where people deny they had knowledge.
"The inquiry was restricted to the IASA and the Leinster branch. What about Ulster, Munster and Connacht?
"We are very concerned that serious allegations have been made about other coaches, who are not named. Where are they?"
Mrs Cunningham and her fellow parents wanted the IASA to be made accountable for what happened in relation to Derry O'Rourke, and his predecessor as Olympic coach, George Gibney, who was charged but not convicted of child sex abuse offences.
"From what we could read there was no accountability from those who covered up for O'Rourke and Gibney," she said. "The same people remain in swimming. "They viewed complaints with disbelief and hoped they would go away. There was a code of ethics there in the mid-1980s, but it was never acted upon." The report reveals a litany of serious abuse of young swimmers, and a record of, at best, bungling by the swimming authorities, which has shocked the politicians who have read the report. It identifies, even if it does not name, two other coaches against whom allegations have been made. All in all, it suggests something very rotten in the sport of swimming, and something very seriously lacking in our system of child protection. Surely there is something to be welcomed in it?
"We are not shocked. This has been with us since 1993, and no one wanted to know about it. At least it's out in the open. We had to make a submission and go in anyway, and at least it's on the record.
"Only for the group of us pushing, this inquiry would never have come to pass."