George Gibney has been jailed for 15-and-a-half-years for the sexual abuse of children in the 1970s and 1980s.

He was convicted of 39 counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted rape following trial earlier this year.

Judge Micheál O'Higgins described the abuse as systematic, predatory and a gross abuse of Gibney's role as the victims' coach.

Joe Molloy was in attendance for the sentencing on Monday, and was later joined in studio by Chalkie White, a former Irish national swimming champion who was among the first to speak out publicly about the abuse he was subjected to by Gibney. 

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