Kieran Shannon: Oireachtas committee must ask Rowing Ireland the hard questions
Allegations of a toxic high-performance culture and failures of duty of care have put Irish rowing under fresh scrutiny. On Wednesday, representatives from Rowing Ireland and Sport Ireland will appear in front of an Oireachtas committee for sport
Right now, it wouldn’t appear to be the biggest story in Irish sport.
Rowing in Ireland, as its national championships indicate, doesn’t attract anything like the kind of attendances or attention that your own county would have commanded over the weekend with the opening round of the national leagues, or the interest the public has is in rugby’s four provinces, let alone the behemoth that is the Premier League.
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