Special Olympics: State will halt funding if sports fail to meet code of governance

Any national governing body that does not adhere to Sport Ireland‘s new governance programme will have their funding removed, according to Minister of State for Sport, Patrick O’Donovan.

Minister O’Donovan made the comments while opening the new Special Olympics Ireland offices at the National Sports Campus, Dublin yesterday, having been quizzed on the possibility of limiting the terms of office of sports administrators.

“It’s not up to me to tell organisations who can or cannot be elected as a chair or as secretary and I am not going to get into that,” added Minister O’Donovan when pressed on specific sports administrators.