And on 1 July this year, the one-time Olympic swimming coach was fitted for handcuffs and return, more than 30 years after his first prosecution got scuttled by now-discredited statute-of-limitations case-law. A victory lap by the Irish Times crowd always seems to replace the incommodious task of shining the klieg light of accountability on sports overseers, law enforcement and governments. In Ireland’s public square, I now ask yet again: “Why [Was] George Gibney – No. The BBC, Irish Times and RTÉ avoid contemplating the larger lessons and squash offshoot stories. Irvin Muchnick is author of ‘Underwater: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe’