Committee must steer ‘2012 Olympic roadmap’

THE Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism has been advised to establish a steering committee “to co-ordinate and manage the 2012 Olympic Roadmap.”

Speaking yesterday at the launch of the eighth report of the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Chairwoman, Cecilia Keaveney TD, said it was her aspiration that future Irish international sporting participation “be not only successful but untarnished and scandal free.”

Deputy Keaveney said the report, entitled “Ireland and the Olympics - from Athens to London”, examined in detail the issues of Olympic participation and the value of a “sport for all” policy.