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

Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae has heaped praise on John Delaney, saying the only thing the former FAI CEO is guilty of is "trying to help an association in the best way you saw fit at that time".

Sport Ireland has announced it will "suspend and withhold future funding to the Football Association of Ireland".

The Oireachtas Sport Committee is meeting a corporate governance expert for guidance this afternoon, ahead of questioning former FAI CEO John Delaney.

A TD who attended last summer’s World Cup Final with the help of the FAI has said “crossed wires” were to blame for him apparently denying the association had any involvement in his attendance at the match.

FAI workers have joined the call for clarification of the association’s financial arrangements with former chief executive John Delaney and the accountability of the board.

A former chief executive of the FAI, Fran Rooney, says that many of the people involved in running the association have “gone beyond their sell-by date.”

The Oireachtas Committee on Sport has called for a fresh inquiry into the ticketing deal between the Olympic Council of Ireland and THG.

Former GAA president Sean Kelly and Budget Travel chief Gillian Bowler will be among the members of the new London 2012 Olympics Task Force unveiled by the Government today.

Ireland must begin preparing now for the Olympics in London in 2012 to prevent the fiasco of Athens last year, it was claimed tonight.