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

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.

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 Garda’s fraud bureau is set to meet with the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) this week to map out a joint response to an audit of FAI finances.

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

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.

The State's corporate watchdog is to run the rule over a report into accounting irregularities at troubled travel software company Datalex.

The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement has asked the High Court to determine if parts of documents held by the FAI auditors Deloitte are legally privileged.

Against the backdrop of suspended Government funding and intense criticism from Sport Minister Shane Ross, FAI president Donal Conway has made clear the weight the organisation attaches to the views of football’s governing bodies by describing Uefa as “the absolute key relationship” for the association.

Sport Ireland has said it supports Minister Shane Ross’ call for FAI president Donal Conway not to seek re-election to the board of the football association of the football association.

Sport Ireland has said it supports Minister Shane Ross’ call for FAI President Donal Conway not to seek re-election to the board of the beleaguered football association.

Sport Ireland chief executive John Treacy has indicated that the adoption by FAI members of the major reforms recommended by the Governance Review Group Report will be one of the factors essential to the restoration of funding which has been suspended since April.

It may be easier to say what a developed country is rather than what a developing country is.

The state's corporate law watchdog has spent more than half a million euro on court-appointed inspectors to further its inquiry into Independent News and Media.

Former INM CEO Gavin O'Reilly and former INM director of corporate affairs Karl Brophy have secured High Court permission to use, for further legal proceedings, materials provided to them during a hearing to appoint inspectors to INM.

Former INM CEO Gavin O'Reilly is concerned his personal data may have been accessed during an alleged data breach at the company in 2014, the High Court has heard.

Ex-FAI chief executive John Delaney is still on the soccer body’s payroll and could technically return to a senior role, despite the entire FAI board agreeing to step down by July.

The beleaguered Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has failed to keep proper accounts, according to its auditors, who have reported the allegation to the body responsible for company law enforcement.

They can’t escape now. Not even him.

No sports organisation has a monopoly on triumph or failure.

Latest: Shane Ross has denied the FAI is facing financial armageddon.

Auditors Deloitte have said the FAI has contravened two sections of the Companies Act 2014.

John Delaney Going, going, gone. But, hold on, not entirely gone. Not yet. Not officially and not definitively.

The Football Association of Ireland has said it will make whatever changes to its board demanded in order to have its State funding reinstated.

They came, they sat, they parked the bus.

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has admitted to breaking the rules for getting State funding by not notifying Sport Ireland of the €100,000 loan from its former CEO John Delaney.

Shares in Independent News & Media (INM) climbed 30% as the publisher revealed it received a potential takeover approach from an unnamed company, putting it into play at a valuation of almost €132m.

New laws guaranteeing that women who seek abortions will have safe access to hospitals is unlikely to be in place by the summer break.

Department of Finance officials vehemently rejected accusations by a TD that they are “batting for the banks” by opposing the so-called “no consent, no sale” bill.

The FAI has announced that it has commissioned an independent review into recent issues of concern concerning the association.

Today it was revealed the organisation had been paying €3,000 a month to rent properties for the use of former chief executive John Delaney.

Denis O’Brien can feel the pain of the Isle of Man 19. Both he and the 19 individuals had their privacy breached.

The response to the announcement that the Government is expected to strengthen and rename the agency entrusted with overseeing company law and investigating white-collar crime must be mixed; once bitten, twice shy, as it were.

While the new Corporate Enforcement Authority — to replace the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) — with more powers is to be welcomed, it is still not good enough for the attorney general to simply rule or advise that the report into the role of the ODCE in the matter of the Sean FitzPatrick IBRC trial should not be published due to “potential difficulties with the Companies Act and fears the file could reveal how the ODCE operates”.

The State’s white collar crime watchdog is set to be given sweeping new powers to help it investigate complex cases in the wake of the collapse last year of the Sean FitzPatrick IBRC trial.

An application by the State’s corporate watchdog to examine material on computers taken from the suicide counselling charity Console has been further adjourned at the High Court.

A State review into abuse at a Galway foster home has been deemed “insufficient” by one of the victims who lived there.