Motions submitted to have national executive reduced

A SEISMIC shift in the bureaucratic set up of the Show Jumping Association of Ireland is on the cards when it holds its 2001 AGM next Tuesday.

The Connaught Region and the Northern Region have submitted motions that the association’s national executive be reduced from 21 members (five from each of the four regions plus the chairman) to 17 (four from each region, of which one will be a named substitute, plus the chairman).

Crucially, however, only three from each region would attend meetings at any one time, meaning that, in reality, the executive would number only 13 (this includes the chairman), amounting to a reduction of over one-third in the make up of the ruling body.