Former Irish boxing president jailed for sexual assault of teenager

Gerry O’Mahony was charged with sexual assault in May 2023 but he did not inform the IABA and continued to carry out public and media functions for the association

Gerry O’Mahony, whom the court was told did not accept the jury’s verdict, has been in custody since the end of his trial on October 30. File photo

The former president of the Irish Amateur Boing Association (IABA) Gerry O’Mahony has been sentenced to four years in prison for sexual assault with the final nine months suspended. 

O'Mahony of Murphy Place, Abbeyside, Dungarvan, was convicted last October of the sexual assault of a teenager at a time in 2009 or 2010. At Tuesday’s sentencing hearing at Waterford Circuit Criminal Court his victim gave a powerful victim impact statement in which she said that the assault “is a shadow that followed me daily, making me feel weak and incapable".