Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Sport Ireland: Chairperson Designate
9:30 am
Mr. Kieran Mulvey:
Yes. Rowing is coming back to prominence because of the facility that has been created in Cork.
In regard to judo, our problem at the moment is that Lisa Kearney has suffered an injury that will put her out of the Olympics. She was our great hope, having won medals in European and other competitions. Sometimes it is the case that one is relying on one athlete in a particular sport. Arthur Lanigan-O'Keeffe is someone who is coming through almost out of the fog. We are doing our best to bring athletes on within the different sports by funding them and their high-performance directors. We have a broad church and we take a broad church view.