Gardaí investigate 'dirty tricks campaign' around bogus coastal rowing letters

Gardaí are investigating an incident in which bogus letters were sent to government ministers purporting to be from a coastal rowing federation and which cast them "in a very bad light" as part of a "dirty tricks campaign". Picture: Jim Coughlan

Gardaí are investigating an incident in which bogus letters were sent to Government ministers purporting to be from a coastal rowing federation and which cast them "in a very bad light" as part of a "dirty tricks campaign".

The letters, which purported to be from the secretary of the Irish Coastal Rowing Federation (ICRF), John Flynn, were sent to then minister for sport, Shane Ross, and his junior minister at the time, Brendan Griffin, in December 2019.