Ireland can learn from Kiwis’ holistic approach
As chief of Sport New Zealand, the former hockey Olympian, businessman, and sometime coach has been a firm proponent of the need for sports clubs in his country to pool resources in light of societal changes and declining memberships. Mergers were another pill he knew were needed, no matter how hard they might be to swallow.
Among those were his beloved Hutt Hockey Club which joined forces with Eastern Hutt a few months to ago to form Hutt United. The DNA of Miskimmin’s entire family had been embedded in the old entity. A lifetime member, he admitted that he was walking emotionally away from his past but for a good reason.
