Mr. Ciaran Kirwan:

The Chairman is perfectly entitled to his observation. However, we are reluctant to draw analogies to other sports. When addressing the Oireachtas committee, I believe the chairman of Sport Ireland drew the analogy to Joe Schmidt and rugby. I could draw the analogy to rugby and the incident with Matt O'Connor, the former Leinster coach. I am not privy to the exact clauses in his contract but we know that when he complained about the condition of his players on returning from international duty and their lack of availability for Leinster matches, he was, in fact, called in to a disciplinary hearing by the IRFU, as I understand it. We all know what happened to Matt O'Connor.