'Everyone's experience is different': Paul O'Donovan on rowing controversy

Paul O Donovan at the launch of the National Dairy Council's High-Performance Breakfast.

Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy are their own men but they are linked in the public consciousness through their combined efforts in amassing Olympic, World and European rowing medals for Ireland.

It’s just three weeks since McCarthy tiptoed gingerly around the scandal that has gripped Irish rowing since the publication of Paul Kimmage’s articles in the Sunday Independent over a toxic culture in the sport’s high-performance system.