Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Sport Ireland and the Federation of Irish Sport

9:00 am

Mr. John Treacy:

He brought expertise, and particularly in the last two weeks leading up to competition he instilled confidence in the athletes. That was something that was missing. Discipline was another factor. Discipline fell apart. Let us put it this way; a vacuum emerged in terms of aspects of the management of the team. We outlined it a year before the Olympic Games and we put it on the record. I do not wish to raise those issues again. The chief executive of the IABA is meeting Liam Harbison today to talk about how it will utilise the institute from now on.

We encourage them to utilise the fine facility that is there. It happened leading into the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. All the boxers are out training in their clubs leading into the national championships. After the national championships, they all come together and we will have them on the national sports campus. I will refer the issue of the doping case to Dr. May.

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