The former Ireland Olympic swimming coach was accused of sexual offences dating back decades and a new podcast series renews hope his victims will finally see justice done
It’s taken her decades to get here but in conversation at her home in Cork, Tric Kearney could well be discussing the gruelling training sessions she undertook as a talented child swimmer when she matter-of-factly describes the repeated rapes to which she was subjected by her coach. “Two times a day at least, maybe,” she recalls. “And it could be anything and everything. It was pretty severe.”
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