Finn Harps 1  St Patrick’s Athletic 0  Underdogs Finn Harps shocked St Pat’s thanks to an early blunder that ultimately cost the Saints their place in the Extra. ie FAI Cup.

Roy Barrett has written to members of the FAI National Council stressing Uefa's and Fifa's support for reform and the conditions laid out by the Irish government to continue state funding to the organisation.

Stephen Kenny and the FAI are still awaiting news on whether they can travel to Bulgaria for their Nations League game at the start of September.

MATT DOHERTY has made a €15,000 donation towards buying equipment for a football course he learnt his trade at.

On the day the GAA mapped out their draw and fixtures, the FAI were still struggling to end the deadlock among clubs on a restart format for the national league.

An independent review into the operations of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has been handed over to An Garda Síochána and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE).

The cash-strapped FAI was offered some welcome respite on the financial front on Thursday night with news of FIFA's €1.34bn relief fund which is being made available to associations impacted by the coronavirus and its consequences.

The FAI has announced that the Mazars report has been referred to An Garda Síochána and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE).

The debate over when to restart the Airtricity League winds on and on but amateur footballers around the country will get their teeth into competitive football again on July 18 under new directives from the FAI.

Keane, who was part of Mick McCarthy's Republic of Ireland management team, has now gone from a situation where he had two posts to none in the space of less than three months

Stephen Kenny is to have a place on the FAI’s executive team in a broader role but there’s no room for Niall Quinn under restructuring plans unveiled to staff today.

Intervention by the FAI’s top interim executives, Gary Owens and Niall Quinn, has triggered a U-turn on controversial changes planned by the largest schoolboy league in the country.

McGoldrick scored 15 times in 45 appearances in his first season with the Blades to help them achieve promotion to the Premier League last year.

The FAI have appointed Odgers Berndtson to spearhead their search for a permanent chief executive, with advertisements due to be placed tomorrow.

Corporate governance at the FAI is back in the spotlight as two high-profile League of Ireland delegates on senior council continue to seek answers around the Association’s finances and reform agenda.

FAI council member John O’Regan has echoed the concerns of colleague Nixon Morton by insisting only intervention by Fifa will prevent civil war erupting at committee level.

Speaking following last night’s board meeting, and amid a letter of complaint sent last week to Fifa and Uefa by senior council member Nixon Morton, the Association reiterated their commitment to “constitutional reform”.

The Department of Sport have reaffirmed the obligation on the FAI to implement governance reforms by next month for State funding to be reinstated.

The FAI board will today review a letter sent by a member of their council to Fifa and Uefa expressing fears that Irish football faces “losing it sovereignty” if proposed reforms linked to a State bailout are implemented.

Dundalk boss Vinny Perth has confirmed that his assistant Ruaidhri Higgins has left the club to take up a role with Ireland manager Stephen Kenny's backroom team.

UEFA had already made the decision to put back the Euro finals, which will be staged in England, for a year, from 2021 to 2022.

League of Ireland clubs will demand specific information and financial guarantees from the FAI before agreeing to restart the 2020 season.

A mini-tournament involving last season’s top four clubs is being considered to help prepare them for European competition but it looks increasingly unlikely that the League of Ireland proper will return before September at the earliest.

Cork City ’s Alan Bennett has always stood out as a thoughtful communicator, someone who is happy to share the fruits of the knowledge he has accumulated during a long career in the game - the kind of footballer you will often hear his fellow professionals, and especially the younger ones, speak of as a valued mentor and educator.

While the League of Ireland continues to ponder the pros and cons of playing behind closed doors, the FAI is also engaging with stakeholders on how adult amateur and underage football can negotiate the pandemic.

"We hope that these memories and our words of support may help bring some peace and solace at this difficult time.”

A US-based firm has expressed an interest in live-streaming League of Ireland fixtures but it will take a mammoth financial contribution from Fifa for the 2020 season to resume behind closed doors.

IRELAND manager Vera Pauw believes that the postponement of major international tournaments as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic has seen women’s sport forced to play second fiddle to men’s sport.

The former international, now interim deputy CEO of the FAI, said he hopes that the players will “embrace the style of football Stephen wants to play and the culture and spirit that he wants to bring in”

Interim CEO Gary Owens says that the FAI plans to hold talks with the Government as soon as possible to discuss the implications for Irish football of the newly announced ban, applying until the end of August, of gatherings of over 5,000 people.

Being named as the Ireland manager’s assistant would, at the best of times, be a head-spinning moment.

Former international John O’Shea, recently appointed assistant coach with the Ireland U21s, is one of twenty coaches who have been accepted onto the 2020/22 UEFA Pro Licence course run by the FAI.

FAI deputy chief executive Niall Quinn admits Stephen Kenny would enter bonus territory by guiding Ireland to next year’s Euro finals.

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) are set launch a new 'FAI Grassroots' YouTube channel on Monday, with an FAI Homeskills video programme.

HOW good is Stephen Kenny’s timing?

IT’S hardly an exaggeration to suggest that, such is the reputation for ambitious and adventurous football which he has carved out at the helm of Dundalk and the U21s, when many people look at Stephen Kenny they don’t just see the latest Ireland manager, they see someone who is about to revolutionise Irish football.

Stephen Kenny has said that he regrets not having had the opportunity to talk to Robbie Keane about his decision not to retain him in his new backroom team.

Seamus Coleman will remain as Ireland captain under Stephen Kenny, the new manager has revealed.

MAYBE it was appropriate given how the world itself has been turned upside down that Stephen Kenny’s ‘unveiling’ as Republic of Ireland manager earlier this week was done in the sort of furtive fashion more akin to a sacking.

John Caulfield thinks it's a great time for Stephen Kenny to be taking over the national team.

Dundalk goalkeeper Gary Rogers has backed old boss Stephen Kenny to be a huge success as Republic of Ireland manager.

Even among those who had long been looking forward to the dawn of the Stephen Kenny era, there is bound to be — and most certainly should be — huge sympathy for Mick McCarthy that his second coming has ended the way it has.

Now that the folly of a misguided succession plan has been untangled, Irish football is all about Stephen Kenny.