Call for new agency to secure international sports events

At its 2015 Annual Review in Herbert Park yesterday, the Federation of Irish Sport called for the establishment of a new sports event bidding agency to secure prestigious international sports events for Ireland.

James Galvin is the chief executive of the federation (which is the representative body for Ireland’s national sporting organisations, local sports partnerships and other voluntary sports organisations), and he feels that a similar model to that employed in Scandinavian countries could help Ireland in the bidding for events like the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

“We’re looking at the models in the Scandinavian countries, which to date have proven to be particularly successful. What we’d like to do is replicate those models into an Irish context,” Galvin remarked.