Olympic dreams suffer while Shane Ross plays Games

“I make no apologies for it — I’m the guy who wants to bring the Olympics to Dublin.”

Olympic dreams suffer while Shane Ross plays Games

Oh, how we laughed. At first, anyway. What people forget about Gay Mitchell’s pitch to bring the five-ringed circus to town back in 1992 was that it wasn’t some sort of spontaneous brain fart.

This wasn’t Shane Ross talking on the hoof at some Oireachtas committee meeting. The then Lord Mayor of Dublin was deadly serious. He followed his words up with actions.

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