Hockey chiefs warn of potential ‘crisis year’ after overspend

Irish hockey chiefs claim former coach Paul Revington and his management team were responsible for a €37,000 overspend that leaves the national body facing a potential financial “crisis year” in 2013.

At a special general meeting of the Irish Hockey Association on Sunday, board member Julie Beamish said the senior men’s spending in the build-up to March’s Olympic qualifiers “should have been micro-managed”.

The meeting was called by 12 clubs in the wake of the IHA board’s decision to withdraw the senior men from the Champions Challenge I in Argentina.