{"id":449660,"date":"2026-05-15T04:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449660\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:55:13","slug":"it-was-a-really-hard-time-probably-the-hardest-few-months-of-my-career-fintan-mccarthy-on-irish-rowing-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449660\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was a really hard time, probably the hardest few months of my career\u2019 \u2013 Fintan McCarthy on Irish rowing scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fintan McCarthy is preparing to return to action in the single sculls at the World Cup in Seville in two weeks\u2019 time. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2f1174d2-49b7-421b-9ed7-5139bab6f1e3.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)\">Fintan McCarthy is preparing to return to action in the single sculls at the World Cup in Seville in two weeks\u2019 time. Photo: David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile<\/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)\">Two-time Olympic gold medallist Fintan McCarthy has addressed the Irish Independent\u2019s investigation into the culture of Rowing Ireland\u2019s high-performance programme, stating that he was \u201csurprised\u201d by some of what he read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fintan McCarthy is preparing to return to action in the single sculls at the World Cup in Seville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28139,61,60,42965,112],"class_list":["post-449660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fintan-mccarthy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-paul-kimmage","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449660","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=449660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}