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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