No gold medal for Bertie

DURING his speech announcing the establishment of a new Irish sports institute, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said: “In sport, winning is the ultimate reward.

The time has now arrived to create a new institute dedicated to getting the best out of the talent of our best sportsmen and sportswomen. The Institute of Sport will bring our high performance system to a new level, providing our best athletes with a world-class support structure.”

Surely the Taoiseach is having us on? Where else have we seen these so called “world-class support structures” in place in other facets of Irish society? The health service?