Irish journalist who brought down Lance Armstrong is vindicated at last

Whle I'm well familiar with the Irish culture of begrudgery, I believe there are extenuating circumstances in the Armstrong-Walsh Affair. David Walsh's 12 year old son died while on a bicycle. During the long Armstrong-Walsh affair, at one point Armstrong directly accused Walsh of puruing the investigation because Walsh hated cycling due to the death of his son while on bike. Armstrong made it intensely personal. Armstrong should not have gone there. Listen to the BBC radio interview with Walsh played on 1/18/13 to draw your own conclusions. If, as Walsh suggests in the interview, Armstrong used the death of Walsh's son in any way in this matter, I find it difficult to castigate David Walsh.

gunterson is his real name

Irishpjk - Truer words were never spoken. You clearly have wisdom and insight and I could not have said it better myself. Keep posting. We need you the on this lefty website. Cheers!

I hope Michelle Smith isnt a spoof,the irony certainly isnt lost where this story is concerned,drugs are an every day occurrence in all walks of life in sport and out,just last i week dropped a passenger of at a house party,young 24 year old happy go lucky,five days later they were filling in the grave he was lying in,overdosed on heroin,just another statistic to drugs.

The Irish have always had a problem with Tall Poppies. If one shows any bit of initiative they must be dragged down. Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, Geldof are but a handful who had to leave over mini minded little r soles like David Walsh. I bet he goes to mass and believes in god and all that parochial incestuous ridiculous nonsense that goes on in The Hiber-Nation. What a dick head.

An Irish tout, why who'd of thunk? Say it ain't true Joe.

I left Ireland over fifty years ago and I see the Irish have not changed since. If you can’t climb up by yourself do your best to bring someone else down to your level. I won’t defend Armstrong what he did was wrong but all the riders passed the same drug testing, why? And do you think he was the only on doing it? Many Irish men ended up on the end of an English rope because some other Irish man was so begrudging that he went all out to bring them down. Like many of my other comments I am sure you won’t like this either and it won’t last long on you site, but that is the liberal way.

wtf I left Ireland over fifty years ago and I see the Irish have not changed since. If you can’t climb up by yourself do your best to bring someone else down to your level. I won’t defend Armstrong what he did was wrong but all the riders passed the same drug testing, why? And do you think he was the only on doing it? Many Irish men ended up on the end of an English rope because some other Irish man was so begrudging that he went all out to bring them down. Like many of my other comments I am sure you won’t like this either and it won’t last long on you site, but that is the liberal way.

I offer a different View: I get David Walsh and his relentless pursuit of the truth, But I also must wonder about the sentiment of someone who his so vehement in his efforts to bring lance down..that you must ask yourself about his sanity for it. Lance is nothing more then a sports figure who lied and used dope,,profited from the results of it enormously, duped the public into mass denial and then stages the proven forgiveness format by using Oprah Winfrey to get back some semblance of humanity. I ask what is new here? Why was David so personally embittered as to spent every waking moment dogging lance around? Its the old "me thinks he doth protest too much" Biz. Lance is an arrogant lout..always was, read his bio from 12 years ago...If you cannot pick up on it there...you would be happy to work for Steve Jobs...as they were both just kitten's and cancer sufferers unfairly smacked with life's worst trials. A man possessed is a man possessed regardless friend or foe, It should seem they both suffered greatly, one at the hand of the others hand.

Well done David Walsh and Paul Kimmage.