Pride and ambition combined in a knock-out blow to deliver justice to 67-year-old boxing chief Gerry O’Mahony. For more than a decade, the teenage victim of his sex assault had struggled to cope with the aftermath of what he had done to her.
The young woman feared she could not cope with the aftermath if a complaint was lodged with the gardaí – and was even more afraid of being cruelly judged and gossiped about.