Tom Humphries thread

[Sidney]

@alf_stewart

I dont agree. Fine to debate what he said but the matter of his employment is down to his employer.

That’s a perfectly logical position to take as long as you’re prepared to never, ever speculate about the future employment of a football manager or a Garda commissioner or a politician or a movie producer facing allegations of serial sexual abuse or anybody else. Or indeed if you took that view as regards Tom Humphries since April 2011.

@alf_stewart

Cusack made his comments in the capacity of a high profile GAA personality and pleaded for leniency for Humphries. It could be argued he has brought the name of the organisation in to disrepute. People are entitled to be disgusted by his actions. You seem to think they are not.

People are entitled to say what they want and to have a view on it.

I’ve been quite up front on that from the start.

Funnily enough the impression I’ve been getting from those who disagree with me is that I’m not entitled to have a view.

The difference between Hook and Cusack is that one is quite obviously guilty of flagrant professional misconduct. The other isn’t, hasn’t condoned a crime or blamed a victim, and is at worst guilty of misjudgement.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Cusack wasn’t very forgiving of MON mate. Hard to be forgiving towards him

[Juhniallio]

@Sidney

@Juhniallio

As @Rocko and others have stated, it’s absurd that you want to link disagreeing with Cusack to being pro-hook.

I haven’t done that.

What I have done is point out the clear inconsistency and the utterly farcical position of those who defend Hook’s comments yet vilify Cusack, given that only one blamed a rape victim for her own abuse - and it wasn’t Cusack.

You realise the points above are contradictory? And that you accuse anyone who argues otherwise of ignoring your questions about hook? While you refuse to engage entirely with the fact Cusack tried to get a more lenient sentence for a paedophile?
Its mad what passes for logic in Galway.

[backinatracksuit]

Who’s MON mate?

[alf_stewart]

True but people were giving out a GAA personality had written a character reference long before they knew it was Donal Og. I’m sure some people like @HBV were delighted to hear it was him and only too happy to put the boot in.

[backinatracksuit]

It’s personality mate, you could sense the delight here when people realised who it was, obviously not everybody but it was plain to see.
I make no defence, it was a terrible thing to do.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

St Martin

[Juhniallio]

@backinatracksuit

It’s personality mate, you could sense the delight here when people realised who it was, obviously not everybody but it was plain to see.
I make no defence, it was a terrible thing to do.

This is true. But you could also sense the delight when fellas thought it might be Ciarán Whelan when @myboyblue was having his bit of craic.

[Sidney]

@Juhniallio

You realise the points above are contradictory?

They aren’t.

[HBV]

It has fuck all to do with me dicko.
Cusack wanted leniency for his mate who is a convicted paedophile.
@Sidney supports leniency for paedophiles.
That’s the nuts & bolts of it and none of it has any connection whatsoever to do with me.

I always suspected both characters were very very strange men and I was ahead of the curve on That I suppose and have been fully vindicated.

[Sidney]

@HBV

Cusack wanted leniency for his mate who is a convicted paedophile.

Learn what a paedophile is.

Didn’t you once admit letting your kid walk into the room while you were fucking a prostitute? You did, didn’t you?

You’re about the last person on this forum who should be talking about sexual deviancy.

[HBV]

You are campaigning passionately for Leniency for paedophiles.
You rarely get any fresh air and spend your days crusading for the rights of child groomers.

[backinatracksuit]

So the story about the kid and the brazzer is true? animal

[HBV]

It’s not. You as a teacher should not go that route.

[braz83]

Does anyone know why the references weren’t published? If they form part of the judicial process then surely they should be publicly available unless there’s a good reason otherwise?

[backinatracksuit]

What route mate, what does my job have to do with anything?
So did @Sidney make that up, bad form

[maroonandwhite]

Hook called rapists scumbags, he rambled on on a bad tangent about responsibility but never said otherwise about the rapists.

Cusack acted to get an actual convicted child rapist a more lenient sentence.

Ignore the victim blaming, observe the different attitudes to the perpetrators.

[Sidney]

@HBV

It’s not. You as a teacher should not go that route.

I’m pretty sure I remember you posting something to the effect that one of your kids walked in on one of your encounters, mate.

And I’m not dreaming this up.

It was around 2013 when you were regaling the board with your tales of the sexual exploits which you purchased.

[Sidney]

@maroonandwhite

Ignore the victim blaming

Why on earth would you do that?

[iron_mike]

@Sidney

@maroonandwhite

Ignore the victim blaming

Why on earth would you do that?

But sure that’s exactly what you’ve done