One of the strengths that Niall Quinn brings to his new role as FAI Interim Deputy Thingummyjig is that he reminds many people of one of the happiest moments of their lives.

Aiden McGeady will hope that his deadline day move to Charlton Athletic will offer an Indian summer to his Ireland career.

From Lansdowne Road to Wembley and from Palermo to Ibaraki, Niall Quinn enjoyed plenty of euphoric moments in the green shirt.

New interim CEO Gary Owens has said he believes there will be “very few, if any redundancies” at the FAI after the signing of a refinancing deal to secure the future of the Association.

Questions are being raised after the government last week gave €20m to Connacht Rugby for a new stadium, because they weren't sure the IRFU would fund the project.

Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) is set to get a €9.2 million grant from the Department of Sport as part of the first set of allocations under a new sports infrastructure fund.

The development, which was launched in 2016, is a partnership agreement between the FAI, FORAS — the trust that operates Cork City — and Cork County Council.

Minister Ross said the Monday meeting, details of which the attending members of the FAI declined to divulge in its aftermath, had been a “sobering” experience.

The FAI’s executive lead Paul Cooke tonight refused to deny a claim by Sports Minister Shane Ross that the association have sought a bailout of over €10m.

It was bad enough for Eoin Hand to observe his former employer deep in trouble last week but to see his former club sink beyond rescue this week was especially heartbreaking.

Sports Minister Shane Ross says he expects to receive Sport Ireland's report on the Football Association of Ireland and governance concerns later this week.

Earlier this week, a box-off to decide Ireland’s super-heavyweight representative for next month’s European Championships was mooted to take place this evening. Instead of that fight taking centre stage, Irish boxing has been hit by yet another crisis — one which could last a far longer distance than the three rounds originally expected to be contested between Martin Keenan and Dean Gardiner at the National Stadium.

Irish sporting organisations could be asked to impose strict term limits on how long their senior officials can remain in power under plans being considered by Government.

As the celebrities of the world stampede one way in cowardly dereliction of responsibility, the county men march heroically against them, their hands up for duty.

Mixed martial arts (MMA) has “no place” in Ireland unless it implements guidelines and rules planned by Sport Ireland.

A government minister who helped secure a €30m grant for the Páirc Uí Chaoimh revamp in Cork says he is “not unduly concerned” that the EU is poised to scrutinise the deal for compliance on state-aid rules.

TDs have backed down from questioning FAI chief executive John Delaney about the €5m Fifa payment after being told that they would be overstepping their remit and could face legal action.

Councils have to bail out the losses racked up by public pools and leisure centres, says Conor Ryan, Investigative Correspondent.

A local authority is to continue supporting a swimming pool complex in a well-known seaside resort, this year.

More than 600 disabled adults and children will get the chance to use a special hydrotherapy pool which is being developed as part of a €4.5 million leisure centre complex in West Cork.

It’s all downhill from here — Corkonians could be skiing and snowboarding down the country’s first publicly owned ski slope by next summer.

Cycling Ireland President Denis Toomey believes that an indoor velodrome would lead to more medals on the European and World stage after Kildare woman Caroline Ryan was the latest to medal at a major event over the weekend.

On Friday night, at the Arklow Bay Hotel, the FAI were handing out media awards, but just the following morning in the same venue, they were warding off attempts by journalists to question chief executive John Delaney.

The Department of Transport has been accused of failing to hand over key documents to the Public Accounts Committee while under investigation for its handling of a flawed and costly legal battle.

Minister for Sport, Leo Varadkar is expecting no additional cuts in funding to the Irish Sports Council in the coming year.

A swimming pool complex in a popular seaside resort which closed suddenly six weeks ago is due to reopen today following the payment of an outstanding bill.

HE WAS heralded as its “white knight” for giving crucial support to a flagging development agenda.

Tattersalls Ireland yesterday told Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) it has until October 1 to establish a “sustainable guaranteed funding mechanism” or the Meath venue will be unable to host its 2013 international horse trials.

Taxpayers’ money will continue to be wasted because government departments are not taking the recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee as seriously as they should, its chairman warned.

The Aquatic Centre affair was marked by incompetence, writes Michael Clifford

The cavalier attitude of government departments and highly paid advisers towards public projects that involve the money of beleaguered taxpayers is mind boggling.

The “bizarre” inability of the Revenue Commissioners to understand complex tax laws was blamed for the Government becoming involved in a lengthy legal battle over the National Aquatic Centre.

One of the most bitter, personalised and expensive corporate fiascoes in Irish sport will be picked apart in an Oireachtas hearing today.

The rush to build an aquatic centre resulted in a faulty building, an unsustainable business model, and also costly and still unresolved legal disputes, writes Investigations Correspondent Conor Ryan