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fromIndependent
1 day ago

From no-shows to unsolicited phone calls, the key moments from Rowing Ireland's Oireachtas Committee appearance

The chief executive of Rowing Ireland did not attend an Oireachtas committee hearing into the safeguarding of high-performance athletes at the organisation in what was described as an "extraordinary meeting before it ever started".
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fromIndependent
2 months ago

Paul Kimmage: Silence from Sport Ireland is deafening but it's not an old story and it's not going away

Rowing Ireland high-performance program has widespread mental-health crises, with athletes fearful to speak up amid unfair, biased, and nontransparent systems causing many to leave broken.
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Paul Kimmage - Part Two of the investigation into Irish rowing: Denial, downfall, and a bitter end

In December 2017, a two-time Olympic rower from Groningen in Holland called Rogier Blink, was scrolling through his Twitter feed one night when he segued to a story by Liam Gorman in The Irish Times: "In a letter to the Board of Rowing Ireland last month, a group of athletes, including Paul and Gary O'Donovan, Mark O'Donovan and Shane O'Driscoll, and Denise Walsh and Sanita Puspure - all of them World Championship finalists - expressed dissatisfaction about the methods of Antonio Maurogiovanni."
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