After 26 years the public interest in George Gibney has not subsided. Banks was appointed as Swim Ireland High Performance Director in May 2009 having moved from Ireland, and from under the shadow of Gibney, to Florida in 1989 to further his career. Banks was asked on the BBC podcast if he wrote the letter offering Gibney a job. Most acutely it is felt when an audio of his voice monstrously transports them back into his company on the pool deck. It is no harm that after 26 years their discomfort should be our discomfort too.

Source: The Irish Times October 09, 2020 04:52 UTC