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Mental health
fromIndependent
2 weeks ago

Paul Kimmage: Silence from Sport Ireland is deafening but it's not an old story and it's not going away

Rowing Ireland high-performance program has widespread mental-health crises, with athletes fearful to speak up amid unfair, biased, and nontransparent systems causing many to leave broken.
fromIndependent
4 weeks ago

Paul Kimmage - Part Two of the investigation into Irish rowing: Denial, downfall, and a bitter end

In December 2017, a two-time Olympic rower from Groningen in Holland called Rogier Blink, was scrolling through his Twitter feed one night when he segued to a story by Liam Gorman in The Irish Times: "In a letter to the Board of Rowing Ireland last month, a group of athletes, including Paul and Gary O'Donovan, Mark O'Donovan and Shane O'Driscoll, and Denise Walsh and Sanita Puspure - all of them World Championship finalists - expressed dissatisfaction about the methods of Antonio Maurogiovanni."
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