Rory Gallagher - A dismissed case that was dealt with and brought to attention? Mod Note in OP

@bucketybuck, moving this over here as per mod note on the championship thread

Let's say there's an accountant about whom allegations are made that he stole money from a client, the guards investigate but no charges brought; fair enough he's not guilty.

Let's say you have done some previous work with him so he has some credit with you; then you need an accountant for your business and have the option of hiring that guy - you ask him about the previous allegations and he says "sure the guards investigated that, nothing was ever proven" and when you press him on it, he just repeats that statement rather than saying "that was all lies, I never stole a penny" - do you hire him?

If the first statement is all he can give me, I don't. It doesn't make him guilty but I'd still prefer not to take the chance with my business

Are you going to answer the above or not?

There is a precedent in the GAA for public denial of serious allegations. At the time of the X Case it was strongly rumoured across the country that Paddy Cullen was the man at the centre of the case. The day after he became aware of the rumours he appeared on The Late Late Show and clearly and categorically denied what was being said about him. He also gave interviews to the print media that weekend and very quickly cleared his name and restored his reputation.

Brian Kennedy and Ronan Keating did something similar when rumours were swirling around about them.

Yet, in this case, people seem to think that he cannot deny the allegations for legal reasons.

You're getting very tetchy there. Calling another poster "a strange lad".

It's a beautiful sunny Friday afternoon. Why don't you take a little walk down the park, and take long deep breaths. Good for a tense soul.

Abusing somethings tbf.

In fact, in all probability, she developed her alcoholism due to the years of abuse she received from the degenerate

He mentioned winning custody in both jurisdictions, but with him living in Donegal since around 2011, and them only separating in 2019, I imagine the family home was in Donegal at that time so I don`t get why he would have also applied for custody in NI. But even so, there was no investigation in NI until 2022 it seems, so I assume if custody was granted in NI it was before then.

There doesn`t appear to have been any accusations made against him or investigation in the ROI, even though his statement appears to suggest he was cleared in the ROI as well as NI.

In both jurisdictions his wife being an alcoholic at the time he appears to have been awarded custody with no accusations against him would have been enough for that to happen

Can someone please make some allegations against Cara Hunter so we can see if she will follow her own advice to do the right thing and step aside from her role as a public representative, or is that advice only for others?

Has Hazel Chu commented yet?

That is a part of his statement I don`t get. "Allegations against me have been investigated and dealt with by the relevant authorities"

As far as I understand it, he has not been investigated by the Garda for any allegation of spousal abuse in the ROI, or that any allegations have been made to the Garda. If there haven`t been, then it just comes across as him implying that on the allegation his ex-wife made in her post in relation to the ROI, that they were investigated and he was cleared.

Do you have any links / references to support these allegations?

I don't know about anyone else, but alcoholism was evident in a woman I was seeing early in our relationship, I don't think I'd stick around long enough to have kids with her, nevermind marry her. And its very victim blamey to discredit her story because of her own problems now.

Anyway, RG has taken a step back from his role. Some prep for the Ulster final

He has stepped back as Derry manager.

There is a good thread on twitter by a social worker on domestic violence and how sometimes the court makes a decision that leaving the children with the man who abused their mother is better than leaving them with an alcoholic mother.

I am paraphrasing but I do think the fact that he has custody of the children doesn't mean he was not a perpetrator of domestic violence