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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Irish Times piece on athletes funding...

A few days ago, I had a post about the funding given to Irish athletes in 2012 from the Irish Sports Council. In Saturday's Irish Times, Ian O'Riordan writes an article arguing that the athletes are more focused on the money that they might get rather than the medals the might win.

To me, the article seems a bit harsh in that many athletes are getting relatively small grants considering the amount of time they spend training and competing. Is it reasonable to expect them to represent their country without any financial assistance from the state? The Irish Times article can be seen HERE
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous19/2/12 8:05 pm

    Orwell was right after all
    4 legs good 2 legs bad:
    "In line with provisions in Budget 2012, Minister Coveney proposes to provide €56.3m in state funding to Horse Racing Ireland and Bord na gCon for 2012."
    Yet in Olympic year Ian tells us:
    "Irish Sports Council announced on Tuesday that €10.5m of our precious taxpayers’ money is needed to fund our finest athletes this year"
    When you talk about facilities and funding we care more about animals than we do humans

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  2. Anonymous20/2/12 10:46 am

    Very harsh article. Does he write for the Irish times for free....
    Seems to me that he is over compensating for his lack of criticality in the Martin Fagan pieces.

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