Mulvey: Give sport a permanent political home

THE CHAIRMAN of the Irish Sports Council, Kieran Mulvey, has called on the incoming government to give sport a permanent departmental home, rather than moving it from station to station with each cabinet re-shuffle.

In the past, sport has been reduced to a junior cabinet posting while it has also been lumped in with Arts and recently, has shared its time with Culture and Tourism under the ministry of Mary Hanafin.

Mulvey is adamant that sport will benefit further from having a definite governmental headquarters. “We’ll have to see who’s the new administration of the country” he said at yesterday’s announcement of the ISC’s €25.6m funding package.