The FAI have extended the season and scrapped a quarter of the fixture list in a bid to complete the campaign by December 11.

James McClean, Enda Stevens, and Kevin Long are behind the initiative.

The decision of a club of Sligo’s stature escalates the crisis for the domestic game, writes John Fallon.

The Professional Footballers’ Association of Ireland is in emergency talks with Airtricity League clubs after Drogheda United stopped paying players and staff as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.

In the absence of an outright ban on training, one source said there was “some confusion” on the issue.

League of Ireland fixtures are still set to go ahead as scheduled this weekend but the domestic game is now bracing itself for the full impact of the spread of coronavirus, including the likelihood of an imminent shutdown of the SSE Airtricity League.

Sport may shrink in significance in these unprecedented times but the sight of empty stadiums and speculation over the fate of previously ‘untouchable’ events as the Olympic Games and European Championships hammer home just how serious things have become.

The FAI is assessing the financial impact to League of Ireland clubs if the domestic season has to shut down due to coronavirus outbreak.

Clubs, players, and the FAI will be represented at talks in Dublin this afternoon to address the impact the coronavirus could have on the League of Ireland.

A soccer player banned by his local league for criticising a social media post supporting former FAI chief executive John Delaney has still not had his suspension lifted — despite the FAI fining the league which imposed the suspension after finding it had brought the game into disrepute.

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.

Notice was given that the 2020 AGM will take place on July 25 next year in Ballybrit, Co Galway – which, given the extent of the FAI’s current crisis, felt like a major act of faith.

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

The general secretary of the Professional Footballers Association of Ireland (PFAI), Stephen McGuinness, has welcomed a suggestion devised by FAI staff members, that the state would fund a new body that would solely govern grassroots and community football.

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

League of Ireland clubs could be facing a hefty additional cost if the bid by the Players Football Association of Ireland (PFAI) to pursue holiday pay entitlements for their members comes to fruition.

Who was your man-of-the-match?

Graham Cummins has left Cork City after the completion of his contract, as the club announced two signings from their Under-19 ranks.

He was one of five City players who appeared on the PFAI's transfer list, made up of players out of contract following the end of the season.

A match between two teams who have provided nine of the 11 players in the 2019 PFAI team of the year.

The League of Ireland is heading for a three-tier split format from 2021 if, as expected, clubs rubber-stamp proposals next month.

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

It will be an FAI AGM with more than one difference in Trim today as at least six and possibly seven new faces are elected to the board, no accounts are presented to delegates and, in a flesh and blood illustration that the crisis in Abbotstown is not just a local affair, representatives from both Fifa and Uefa will be on hand to keep an eye on proceedings.

Ger Mulvihill Sending promising Irish youngsters across the Irish Sea to pursue a career in professional football on academy contracts is ‘just not working’, with success rates ‘scarily low’, insists Shelbourne defender Luke Byrne.

Uefa are making their top finance man available to the FAI as the organisation seeks to move on from the current crisis.

Limerick FC have responded to their players’ threat of strike action by inviting officials from the footballers’ union to talks on Monday.

Niall Quinn yesterday described the FAI board’s intention to step down as “good news” and “a catalyst for serious change”.

The head of the players’ union in Ireland has heralded the news that the FAI board is planning to step down as an opportunity for real progress in the administration of the game here.

The embattled Football Association of Ireland will today attempt to start mending fences with the Government by confirming a glut of exits, including John Delaney’s.

The appearance of senior FAI officials before an Oireachtas committee this week has been described as a "new low" for Irish football.

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 SIPTU representative has met with Limerick players as the threat of strike action continues to hover over Market's Field.

The Bray club failed to meet an FAI-imposed 5pm deadline to pay their players the seven weeks' wages they're owed.

A win for Cork City in their game in hand against Derry City at Turner’s Cross this afternoon (3pm) will see the Rebels leapfrog Dundalk to go top of the Premier Division.

Liam Mackey takes a look at the top five signings for 2018.

A new alliance and lobby group representing the interests of jockeys, GAA, soccer, and rugby players, is set to be launched in the coming weeks.

In sports, as in politics, we seem to have reached a tipping point. Now we are righteously angry, writes Eimear Ryan