Plenty of questions but few answers at committee

Brendan O’Brien talks about the "challenges, strategies, and governance of sport in Ireland" and what the men in charge plan to do about them.

There aren’t a whole pile of drawbacks to a job that permits you attend a major sporting event and have the cheek to call it work but a few hours spent at Leinster House as the latest committee with responsibility for sport fumbles about like a Junior C footballer on a wet Sunday morning is right up there as one of them.

Circumstances this week dictated that this column couldn’t make it towards Kildare Street on Wednesday afternoon for the latest session of the joint committee on transport, tourism, and sport and the reports, tweets, and general air of dismay that the session prompted only heightened the sense it was a bullet dodged.