Ireland says it will not bid for World Equestrian Games 2014
Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) has announced it will not bid to host the World Equestrian Games (WEG) in 2014.
HSI had commissioned feasibility studies into holding the competition in Ireland and Alltech, the multinational biotechnology company sponsoring the 2010 WEG in Kentucky, had offered to sponsor the possible Irish competition too.
But HSI chairman, Joe Walsh, said the decision not to bid was due to the global economic downturn.
Earlier this year, the British Equestrian Federation announced it would not be bidding for WEG either as the UK had no suitable venue, despite the millions that will be spent on the 2010 London Olympics.
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.