Limited success at hockey’s AGM

Life begins as a limited company for Irish Hockey on July 1 following an emphatic vote at the Irish Hockey Association’s AGM in Dublin on Saturday but clubs rejected a proposed €233 levy for the next two years.

The motion to move to a limited company was supported by 53 votes to two, with the new structure offering protection to clubs and the board in the case of dissolution of the association, limiting liability to €1.

The IHA’s hopes of levying clubs to cover the a €60,000 deficit are dead in the water for now, however, after that motion was defeated by 32 votes to 24.