John Whelan (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I pay tribute to two outstanding and courageous journalists - Paul Kimmage and David Walsh. They deserve all our thanks and full credit for the courage, conviction and perseverance they showed over a decade to expose the outrageous cheating, drug abuse and doping that occurred on the Tour de France. They have been vindicated, although Mr. Kimmage stands exposed to being sued, which is a scandal. Unfortunately, Lance Armstrong, who was a hero and inspiration to us all and a role model we hoped we could look up to, presided over a decade of disgrace and drug taking on the Tour de France. It seems that throughout that decade more drugs were available on the Tour de France than at Woodstock in 1969.