Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 June 2023

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Inclusion in Sport: Discussion

Mr. Fintan Drury:

The preventative approach is right, but we also need to use people, such as a famous black footballer who is still an iconic figure to this day and a Gaelic hurling goalkeeper in a different arena. Some of these iconic people need to be used - I am certain they would be happy to be used - to say it is not cool to think I am a great hero of Irish sport but to be against women wearing hijabs playing football or women who are not Irish being trained in football in our city centres. We also need to be creative in sending hard messages about things not being acceptable. There must also be a hard edge to dealing with the issue as it stands today.

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