![]() ![]() ![]() True to form, a sport and industry has obeyed its instincts and hunkered down to ride out the storm.īolger got heard but apparently there’s nothing much to see here. ![]() Six weeks later and rather than sound and fury there’s been little more than furtive silence. The impact would be seismic, the public debate all-consuming.īut not a bit of it. Or Leo Cullen claimed Leinster rugby wasn’t competing on a level playing field due to doping. Just imagine if Brian Cody said performance enhancing drugs were rife in hurling. At the very least the validity of Bolger’s claims would seem to require being publicly thrashed out. The credibility of a government backed industry worth billions, and employing thousands, has been questioned by one of its leading figures. So cue an existential crisis, right? Perhaps a glut of introspection or even recrimination? Or at the very least feverish speculation about how best to save the reputation of a sector long a symbol of Irish sporting excellence? One of the greatest trainers in the history of the sport here believes drug cheats are getting away with it. These are incendiary statements from one of the sport’s grandees and should shake racing to its foundations. He doesn’t believe there’s a level playing field. It’s six weeks since Jim Bolger declared drugs to be Irish racing’s number one problem. ![]()
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