Speculation of financial difficulties at HSI dismissed

Speculation of financial difficulties at Horse Sport Ireland is “wide of the mark”, according to the Irish Sports Council (ISC), writes John Tynan

The suggestion that things are not quite right at HSI comes as an audit into State funding for the governing body is still to be finalised more than nine months after it was initiated by the ISC as a result of correspondence to the Public Accounts Committee.

Yesterday, Paul McDermott, director of high performance, NGBs, and communications at the ISC, said that while the audit was available in “draft form”, he had not read it, but any suggestion of financial difficulties at HSI was inaccurate.