"Look, I suppose that is the equality we don't want," he said. "It happens in all sports, it happened in the Olympic cycle with some athletes and it has happened now with Deaten. I think the reality is, and I think Irish people would support this, we want those athletes, they represent us, we don't want these keyboard warriors, they don't represent us."
"I think Ireland is having a really difficult time at the moment in relation to that and I think it is happening all across Europe as well in terms of the voices that are coming through social media, and I think social media companies should do more."
"I think that when an athlete at a Paralympic Games just happens to have a different skin tone . . . becomes a target of their ire, is just not acceptable. And I think everyone in Ireland would support that."
"From our point of view we have a duty of care to the athletes, we didn't discuss it with the athlete at the time, these things self-correct a lot on social media, you'll have one person saying one negative thing and 10 or 100 people coming in supporting the athlete."
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