Ian Mallon: Can Quinn end the uncivil war in Irish tennis?

The Tennis Ireland CEO position had been vacant for more than one year, after the previous chief executive left the NGB when he discovered and then highlighted false payments approved by certain board members for work which never happened.

IN OFFICE: New Tennis Ireland CEO Kevin Quinn. Pic: Tennis Ireland

FOR a sporting organisation which has admitted to being run by ‘loose’ factions from Munster and Leinster, the search for a new CEO of Tennis Ireland was bound to be fraught.

The position had been vacant for more than one year, after the previous chief executive left the NGB when he discovered and then highlighted false payments approved by certain board members for work which never happened.