Here is a selection of people who have begun new roles with companies in Ireland, including Horse Sport Ireland, Veterinary Council of Ireland, Sims IVF Group, Smith & Williamson Ireland and Deloitte.

A double helping of FEI World Cup rounds in both show jumping and dressage ensures there is no let-up in international action over the Christmas period.

Rodrigo Pessoa has stepped out of the running for the contract to manage the Irish show jumping team towards the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The Irish Dressage team have qualified for an Olympic Games for the first time ever.

Tipperary's Shane Breen has today made history at the Dublin Horse Show in the RDS, after he claimed victory in the €350,000 Longines Grand Prix of Ireland.

The past weekend was a good one for Irish dressage.

The securing of a one-year extension to his contract as Ireland’s show jumping team manager was welcomed last week by Rodrigo Pessoa, whose priority in his coming term is to get his charges to Tokyo 2020.

The opening ceremony for the World Equestrian Games (WEG) took place last night in Tryon, North Carolina and the first of thirteen days of action gets underway today. Endurance, Reining and Dressage are the disciplines kicking things off and Ireland is represented in all three.

Seventeen Irish sporting organisations received welcome news yesterday with the announcement that Sport Ireland’s board approved an additional €1.5 million in high-performance funding.

A decision to cancel one of the major annual horse sports events in Waterford has been reversed after problems relating funding the event were overcome.

Young Galway rider Michael Duffy could hardly have hoped for a better debut in the Global Champions League when he represented the mostly-Irish Miami Celtics team, riding Efs Top Contender in the opening round of the season in Mexico City at the weekend.

Irish-bred horses continue to dominate the world of eventing, topping the latest yearly rankings by the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH), which were issued on Monday.

Thousands of people will make a beeline for the country’s largest one-day rural show in Tullamore, Co Offaly, on Sunday.

Ray Ryan reports on why Irish sport horse industry leaders attending Dublin Horse Show will be keenly aware of the Brexit challenges ahead

Show jumping team affairs get serious for Ireland from this weekend.

Ireland’s show jumping manager Rodrigo Pessoa was understandably disappointed after last Friday’s seventh-place finish in the five-star Nations Cup at St Gallen in Switzerland, even though it was one of the dispensable ones in his calendar.

Ireland’s new show jumping team manager Rodrigo Pessoa maintains that Irish teams have been underperforming and says that his goal is to transfer good individual performances to better team effect.

A liaison group for top-ranked show jumpers has been established following a meeting last Monday.

Ireland’s elite show jumpers are to gather in Dublin next month to formulate a strategy for championship success in what Darragh Kenny has described as a “hugely positive” development.

Kevin Thornton is confident an autopsy on the horse Flogas Sunset Cruise will exonerate him of any wrongdoing.

Ray Ryan looks forward to the Dublin Horse Show, to which the imminent Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are adding extra spice.

Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) has not deviated from its assertion that MHS Going Global is eligible for the Olympics, and it is hopeful that it has “clarified” a query from the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) regarding the ownership of the horse ridden by Greg Broderick.

The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) yesterday listed Greg Broderick and MHS Going Global among the nominations for Ireland’s sole show jumping slot at the Olympics, but it is examining the horse’s eligibility amid speculation it may not comply with a rule on ownership.

Horse Sport Ireland last night rubbished speculation that the show jumping horse MHS Going Global is ineligible to represent Ireland in the Olympics.

Greg Broderick acknowledged he was “hopeful more than confident” ahead of his surprise nomination yesterday as Ireland’s sole show jumper at the Olympics with MHS Going Global.

Cian O’Connor declared on Facebook this week that he think’s “Ireland will win” today’s Furusiyya nations cup in St Gallen, Switzerland.

An audit of Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) has found no evidence to support a claim by Millstreet equestrian centre of “an abuse or a misuse of public funds”.

Sport Ireland admitted this week that the Deloitte audit of Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) had raised some issues, but it suggested that this was not out of the ordinary.

The reports and vibes emanating from Brazil have, to be kind about it, not been reassuring

Dressage rider Judy Reynolds is breaking new ground this weekend as the first Irish rider to line out in a World Cup final and her aim is to replicate the performances that have seen her greatly improve Ireland’s reputation in the sport.