Any Irish athlete who achieves is doing so in spite of our system, not because of it
There’s nothing wrong with the results, what's wrong is how we’re producing them
The Olympics are the most curious case in all of sports. Briefly so central on stage that everyone forms an opinion, so rarely anywhere near the stage that most of those opinions are uninformed, they’re like a guy looking for the toilets who meanders through the wrong door and finds himself stared down by a vast, expectant and impatient audience.
Take athletics. Come August in Rio de Janeiro, walker Rob Heffernan will be ...
