{"id":335038,"date":"2026-03-08T07:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335038\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T07:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:55:12","slug":"paul-kimmage-a-convicted-doper-playing-in-the-ail-and-a-curious-testing-regime-raise-some-serious-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335038\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kimmage: A convicted doper playing in the AIL and a curious testing regime raise some serious questions"},"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\">They say sunlight is the best disinfectant, but rugby prefers the shade when it comes to issues like this<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Old Wesley RFC says Kristian Jensen has had \u2018a positive presence\u2019 since joining the club. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IS OLD WESLEY 3SH.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)\">Old Wesley RFC says Kristian Jensen has had \u2018a positive presence\u2019 since joining the club. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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)\">Thirty-six years ago, on March 4, 1990, The Sunday Tribune published a withering letter about the competence of one of their rugby writers.<\/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)\">\u201cSir, I was interested to read in Paul Kimmage\u2019s commentary on the France-Ireland game that the Marseillaise was sung \u2018with a passion and fire that was frightening\u2019. How does he know? He was surely not standing close enough to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They say sunlight is the best disinfectant, but rugby prefers the shade when it comes to issues like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,42965,112],"class_list":["post-335038","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\/335038","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=335038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}