{"id":142508,"date":"2025-11-16T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142508\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:38:09","slug":"paul-kimmage-part-two-of-the-investigation-into-irish-rowing-denial-downfall-and-a-bitter-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142508\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kimmage \u2013 Part Two of the investigation into Irish rowing: Denial, downfall, and a bitter end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">As the mistreatment and disrespect of athletes continued unabated, Antonio Maurogiovanni was eventually ushered out the back door\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Monika Dukarska, of Killorglin Rowing Club in Kerry, had been ignored for almost three years, but thanks to her local TD finally she found a way to have her voice heard. Photo: Don MacMonagle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1b6caa88-8cb7-4032-b513-352aabcdbfaf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Monika Dukarska, of Killorglin Rowing Club in Kerry, had been ignored for almost three years, but thanks to her local TD finally she found a way to have her voice heard. Photo: Don MacMonagle<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cIn a letter to the Board of Rowing Ireland last month, a group of athletes, including Paul and Gary O\u2019Donovan, Mark O\u2019Donovan and Shane O\u2019Driscoll, and Denise Walsh and Sanita Puspure \u2014 all of them World Championship finalists \u2014 expressed dissatisfaction about the methods of Antonio Maurogiovanni.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the mistreatment and disrespect of athletes continued unabated, Antonio Maurogiovanni was eventually ushered out the back door&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,42965,112],"class_list":["post-142508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-paul-kimmage","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}