“IF we got money in Budget 2022, you are looking at four and five years before something is built,” claimed the Interim CEO of Horse Sport Ireland, Joe Reynolds, last Friday, following another week of debate surrounding HSI’s proposed move from Naas to a new headquarters at Greenogue Equestrian in nearby Rathcoole, Co Dublin.

HSI met with the officials from the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine on Monday to discuss the matter. Speaking on Kildare FM after that meeting, Minister for State and Kildare TD Martin Heydon said: “I’ve asked them, myself and Minister McConalogue [Minister of Agriculture], that they would take a step back and not rush into signing a long term lease in the next couple of weeks.”