Ian Mallon: All change at Flutter as €300m World Cup spend expected

Ronan Murphy will become the new chief executive of Hockey Ireland in October. He will take over from Richard Fahey, who was appointed as interim CEO two months ago. The biggest challenge for Murphy is to establish the right balance between grassroots and high performance. The Department of Agriculture's Indecon report recommended sweeping changes to the organisation. In most sports businesses, a near 10% drop in attendance figures since the last ‘normal year’ of activity would constitute a crisis. in Irish racing the slippage represents a strong result under a set of events which have impacted the overall popularity of racing for spectators.