Gary O'Donovan made us laugh with 'pull like a dog'. He ended up being treated like one

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

Paul O'Donovan (left) and Gary O'Donovan (right) in Skibbereen celebrating their silver medal success at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

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 in rugby’s four provinces, let alone the behemoth that is the Premier League.