An in-depth review of the way Ireland's international showjumping team is selected is to be undertaken following an increasingly bitter internal row.
An argument has broken out over the selection process for the squad following the refusal of showjumper Harry Marshall to compete with Cian O'Connor after last week's Nations Cup in Dublin.
Equestrian Federation of Ireland (EFI) president Avril Doyle said she would be asking for a review to be undertaken as soon as possible after the Super League final in Barcelona on September 18th.
Ms Doyle said she had notified the chief executive of the Showjumping Association of Ireland (SJAI) of her belief that strong leadership and effective structures were needed to prevent a repeat of the current problems next season.
Equestrian Federation of Ireland president Avril Doyle
"I am deeply unhappy with what has transpired at international level within Irish show jumping in recent weeks, and I wish to sit down with the SJAI to have a complete review of their selection procedure as soon as the current season is over," Ms Doyle said.
Earlier, there were calls for the Minister for Sport to intervene in the row. Labour Party spokesman for sport Jack Wall said Mr O'Donoghue should ask the groups, which seemed to be forming inside showjumping, to take stock of the situation.
"The Minister should ask them to step back for the sake of the equestrian industry, to step back to let clear heads prevail."
Mr Marshall has described the atmosphere within the showjumping squad as "appalling" since disgraced gold medallist O'Connor returned to the team, having served a three-month ban for inadvertently giving his horse a banned substance.
Mr Marshall's resignation from the Irish team comes after he believed he had been selected to compete in Friday's Nations Cup, only to find out an hour later he was not one of the four riders chosen.
Mr Marshall has blamed the army and O'Connor for putting pressure on chef d'equipe Eamon Rice - who selects which riders from the team will jump in the competition - to choose Capt Shane Carey above him.
He has now taken a stand alongside colleague Jessica Kurten, who has refused to compete with Cian O'Connor since he was stripped of his gold medal during an arbitration hearing.
The sport was thrown into further confusion after two selectors walked out of a meeting of the International Affairs Committee of the Show Jumping Association of Ireland during a discussion over the selection of riders for last week's competitions.
Tom Slattery, one of the selectors who resigned, said he had heard O'Connor tell Rice that he would not jump unless Shane Carey was on the team with him.
"I think the chef d'equipe makes the decisions, and you should go by the chef d'equipe's decisions, so this shouldn't happen and shouldn't happen in the public area of the RDS," Mr Slattery said.
"The riders are not happy within the system, the riders are not being listened to, and I don't think the riders are getting a fair call," he told RTÉ Radio.