Neville Maxwell: 'No one in the world likes racing Irish crews'

To be honest, there were huge issues after Rio, writes chair of Rowing Ireland’s High-Performance Committee, Neville Maxwell

Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy fly the flag after their win in Tokyo yesterday. Picture: Steve McArthur/Photosport/Inpho

While Paul and Gary got a fantastic result it was completely down to the lads themselves. It wasn’t down to a system so that success wasn’t repeatable.

I finished with rowing after the 2000 Olympics and only came back into the sport four years ago. Myself and Mike Heskin (head of sport at NUIG) were initially invited onto the board of Rowing Ireland as directors and then to contribute to High Performance where, to be honest, there were huge issues after Rio.