From left: Louise Parkes, co-author, with Joe Walsh, Chairman of Horse Sport Ireland, and Michael Slavin, co-author of Ambassadors on Horseback: The Irish Equitation School, published by The O'Brien Press, which was launched last night at McKee Barracks, Dublin.

HRH Princess Haya Al Hussein (JOR) was today re-elected as President of the FEI at the Federation’s General Assembly in Taipei in a landslide victory in the first round of voting. Princess Haya, who was seeking a second and final four-year term as President, won with 90 votes of a total 124 valid ballots.

HORSE Sport Ireland Chairman Joe Walsh today (Friday) welcomed the re-election of HRH Princess Haya Al Hussein of Jordan as the President of the FEI at the Federation's General Assembly in Taipei.

IRELAND will field some of its heaviest hitters this weekend, with Jumping World Cup Qualifiers in Italy and the USA, and Pau's four-star event taking place in France.

IRELAND was triumphant at the World University Equestrian Championships in Korea today (Tuesday), taking both the Team Gold medal and the Silver Individual medal.

The FEI has today launched a mobile phone application which gives those involved in horse sport much faster and easier access to crucial information on prohibited substances. The Clean Sport app allows immediate access to the FEI Equine Prohibited Substances online database, which was developed early in 2010.

THE THIRD World Cup Qualifying show of the winter indoor jumping season takes place in Lyon in France this weekend, with Shane Breen, Jessica Kurten and Denis Lynch lining out as the strong Irish contingent.

IRELAND'S Shane Carey snatched victory from a strong Scandinavian field last night (Saturday) in the Grand Prix at Odense in Denmark.

AFTER finishing seventh in yesterday's Grand Prix Qualifier at Helsinki, Finland, Ireland's Jessica Kurten came back today (Saturday) to claimed fourth place in the main event, the Helsinki Grand Prix.

IRELAND had two top ten places in Grand Prix Qualifiers this evening, with Cian O'Connor taking third at the four-star show in Caens, France, and Jessica Kurten placing seventh in Helsinki's five-star event.