{"id":167215,"date":"2025-11-30T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/167215\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:24:10","slug":"paul-kimmage-silence-from-sport-ireland-is-deafening-but-its-not-an-old-story-and-its-not-going-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/167215\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kimmage: Silence from Sport Ireland is deafening but it\u2019s not an old story and it\u2019s not going away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sanita Puspure: 'Unfairness, bias, and lack of transparency is very damaging when you are putting your life on hold and giving rowing 100 per cent of your time and effort.' Photo: Daragh McSweeney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c52e2d79-6284-4ed9-8f87-6d4d285475cf.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)\">Sanita Puspure: &#8216;Unfairness, bias, and lack of transparency is very damaging when you are putting your life on hold and giving rowing 100 per cent of your time and effort.&#8217; Photo: Daragh McSweeney<\/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)\">\u201cCurrently there are 12 people from the Rowing Ireland high performance team seeking help from a clinical psychologist; three of them are working with a psychiatrist and are on medication to improve their condition. Not many athletes are brave enough to speak up as everyone is afraid for their seats. How many more mental illnesses do we need in the high performance system for someone to look at this programme properly? Unfairness, bias, and lack of transparency is very damaging when you are putting your life on hold and giving rowing 100 per cent of your time and effort.<\/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)\">\u201cI\u2019ve been in the high performance environment for 15 years. I\u2019ve seen a lot of athletes come and go. Some of them left happy. Lately, there hasn\u2019t been an athlete who would retire or step away from the sport with a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. The majority of athletes leave broken, abused by the system. Some of them will never come back to sport and will never even engage in any rowing related activities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sanita Puspure: &#8216;Unfairness, bias, and lack of transparency is very damaging when you are putting your life on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-167215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167215","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=167215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}