Niall Quinn insists the Football Association of Ireland won’t decide on Mick McCarthy’s future until after the Euro play-off in June.

The clash which takes place in the Pod Malim Brdom stadium in Budva will see Ireland looking to top the group.

The Football Association of Ireland is facing pressure to introduce a ban on youngsters heading the ball due to health concerns.

Latest: The Government has denied bailing out the Football Association of Ireland after announcing it is to give the organisation an interest-free €2.5m annual loan.

Niall Quinn has told Football Association of Ireland staff that the financial outlook isn’t as bad as he’d feared.

The Taoiseach, who was struck down by a stomach bug on the trail forcing him to abandon a planned walkabout at the Santry Omni Park in Dublin.

Unions representing staff at the Football Association of Ireland are confident of minimal job losses at the cash-strapped organisation following talks with Shane Ross.

Officials travelling to Dublin for the meeting with Shane Ross include UEFA's General Secretary and its Financial Director.

Limerick brought proceedings against the FAI over the association's alleged failure to invite it to apply for a licence to play in the League of Ireland First Division during the 2020 season.

The decision follows high-level meetings between Garda bosses and the ODCE after Sports Ireland referred, last November, an independent audit of FAI finances it commissioned to Garda HQ.

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.

Sports Minister Shane Ross has welcomed the appointment of three new independent directors of the Football Association of Ireland - but warned that the development does not mean the immediate restoration of government funding to the crisis-hit sporting body.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe made it clear he has been left “angered” and “disappointed” by the actions of the FAI, but said grassroots football must not pay the price.

Steps to prevent the Football Association of Ireland descending into insolvency will intensify this week with the announcement of independent directors and a roadmap to financial stability.

On St Stephen’s Day, Shane Ross issued a tweet that encapsulated his career as a Government minister. It caused much offence and some anger.

The bulk of the monies would concern policing international matches at the Aviva stadium and last year - the senior Republic of Ireland team played four Euro 2020 qualifiers at the stadium.

Despite another day of caustic soundbites from government officials, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) are increasingly confident that their future will be secured in the coming weeks.

At precisely this time last year, I resisted temptation. On or about New Year’s Eve every year, I hazard a few guesses (for the delectation of readers) about what the coming year will bring.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has ruled out a taxpayer bailout of the Football Association of Ireland, as the FAI outlined that its liquidation is a serious possibility should such a move fail to materialise.

Delegates attending today’s reconvened annual general meeting of the FAI were informed of the threat of liquidation hovering over the organisation.

The AGM of the Football Association of Ireland has resumed in Dublin. It was adjourned in July after the association was unable to present its accounts to delegates.

At the end of a tumultuous year for the Irish football, delegates will on Sunday face into a third emergency general meeting of the Football Association of Ireland in 2019.

The new Football Association of Ireland board is set to have its first female director after the Schoolboys FAI (SFAI) last night proposed Ursula Scully as their nominee to replace John Earley.

The financial and governance farrago which has engulfed the Football Association of Ireland could see the country’s international teams and the League of Ireland driven out of existence.

The government has said that there are still reformations needed in the Football Association of Ireland before the body gets its State funding back.

The change of guard on the the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) board will continue in the coming weeks as Paddy Dempsey is set to replace John Earley as the schoolboys' sector delegate.

Donal Conway is to step down as President of the Football Association of Ireland at an EGM on January 25, 2020.

The Football Association of Ireland are prepared to defy Sports Minister Shane Ross by appointing a new chief executive without his imprimatur.

The crisis-hit Football Association of Ireland was dealt another blow after the man lined up to assume the role of Interim CEO backed out at the last minute.

Sport Ireland has referred the report of an independent forensic audit of the FAI’s finances to the gardaí.

The Irish Examiner has scooped two awards in the 2019 Newsbrands Ireland Journalism Awards.

The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has ordered gardaí to remove the Public Services Card as a means of identification on its vetting forms.

Businessman Kieran Lucid has said that “the work will continue” on his group’s proposals for an All-Island League despite a categorical no to the project from the Irish Football Association in Belfast.

The Irish Football Association has shot down proposals for a All-Island Football League.

The FAI has said it will be claiming privilege over two more documents which form part of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) investigation into the Association.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said “more needs to be done” by the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) if state funding is to be restored, despite former CEO John Delaney’s resignation on Saturday night.

It was a result that was described in the newspapers as ‘a bombshell.’ And the raw facts of game allow for an understanding of why it was considered as such.

The High Court has appointed an interim examiner to League of Ireland side Limerick FC.

Specialist gardaí investigating alleged match-fixing and betting fraud timed their searches at a football grounds for when players were having a training session in order to confiscate their mobile phones for possible evidence.