Sportminister sagt, sein Vorgänger Shane Ross habe den Frauensport um „rund 20 Jahre“ zurückgeworfen
https://www.thejournal.ie/minister-for-sport-says-his-predecessor-shane-ross-set-back-womens-sport-by-around-20-years-6909433-Dec2025/
Von PoppedCork
11 Kommentare
The Minister’s attack on Shane Ross feels less about learning from past policy failures and more about scoring political points. Blaming a predecessor for setting women’s sport back 20 years may grab headlines, but what concrete outcomes is this rhetoric delivering now beyond self congratulation and deflection
Hey! Ross was definitely conscious of equality in sport
He set back plenty of men’s sport by 20 years as well
Same old shit this is the same as the „£22 billion blackhole“
I could be wrong here, but it feels like the last decade has been maybe the most successful stretch in Irish women’s sport, especially if you discount Michelle Smith/De Bruin?
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/we-want-to-force-private-motorists-out-of-their-cars/38229046.html
Lovely man. 🤔
No love for Ross, but O’Donovan is the king of goms when it comes to Dail Éireann.
Who can forget such timeless classics as it was the IRA who done Dublin and Monaghan. And that we need to ban firefox and paypal.
The man is such a special class of stupid, he really belongs in American politics.
As for Ross…nothing lost there.
The only thing I remember about Shane Ross was that he purposefully inserted himself into Katie Taylor’s homecoming at Dublin airport after uniting the world titles. That and the fact he was writing a book about Mary Lou while they were both colleagues in the Dáil. Strange fellow.
Not a fan of Ross by any stretch but is this not a bit cheap throwing shade on someone who is no longer in the game. Reeks of I’m shite at my job so I’ll blame someone else.
Not a can of this. Focus on what you can do now as Minister rather than scapegoating a former minister to be a red herring to take the pressure off yourself and get yourself into the headlines. You can guarantee if Shane Ross was a Fine Gael/Fianna Fail man the minister wouldn’t be saying this.
O’Donovan may well be the thickest TD in the Dáil, which is no small achievement.
But the real problem with him isn’t that he’s stupid. It’s that he thinks he’s the smartest, and is quietly furious that nobody else has noticed his massive genius.
He is the living embodiment of the Peter Principle.
A journalist recently asked him at a press conference to explain the difference between misinformation and malinformation. This was in the context of his department rolling out a programme to tackle one but not the other, but seemingly mixing them up then in policy documents.
Instead of answering the question, O’Donovan replied, in the most patronising tone imaginable, “it’s like Dougal says, near and far away. Near and far away.”
Even setting aside the fact that O’Donovan, an Irish man, was misquoting perhaps the most famous joke in Father Ted, “near and far away” doesn’t even function as an analogy for misinformation and malinformation. Near and far away are complete opposites.
What made it all the more funny was how clearly pleased O’Donovan was with himself for his profound insight, smugly failing to explain his department’s policy while demonstrating that, like Dougal, he doesn’t understand the concept at all.
Straight out of the being shit at your job playbook