“Clubs are businesses”: Whitney Moore’s Emma Richmond on why governance matters in sport
When most people think about sport, they picture elite athletes, packed stadiums, or sponsorship deals. But for the majority of Ireland’s population, sport looks very different. It’s the Saturday-morning GAA pitch, the hockey sideline, the committee meeting in a clubhouse. And according to Emma Richmond, managing partner at the law firm Whitney Moore, it’s where the country’s real sporting infrastructure begins — and where some of its biggest governance challenges lie. “Fifty per cent of the adult population are members of a sports club,” she says. “Even you look at professional athletes, they all started somewhere. “They started in their…
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