THE announcement that Horse Sport Ireland had decided to relocate to a new state-of-the-art headquarters and national training centre at Greenogue continued to attract comment in Letters to the Editor as we embarked into the New Year.

The non-affiliated letter writers weren’t too impressed with the proposal but Joe Reynolds, who was confirmed as staying in the role of interim CEO of HSI in January, was determined to press ahead. “I’m not taking my foot off the gas,” he declared.