Radical changes in the make-up of the FAI board and council are imminent after the governance review committee today published their report at Abbotstown.

The Board of the FAI has said it is “shocked and disappointed” by SIPTU's claim that there is a threat the Association could become insolvent in a matter of weeks.

FAI staff are pushing to have two employees on the association’s new-look board.

Sport Ireland CEO John Treacy has expressed his confidence in the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) delivering a series of robust reform proposals for the FAI.

John Treacy believes there is no reason why the FAI can not mirror the example set by the Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) in cleaning house and transforming into a beacon of good sporting governance in the next two years.

Sport Ireland has insisted any new FAI board must have independent members to ensure transparency as it begins its corporate governance review of the soccer body today.

“This is D-day. Be prepared to die.”

A six-year jail sentence was imposed today on a former nightclub bouncer who imprisoned three women in a bedroom, wounded them with a stun gun and warned that it was 'D-day' and they were about to die.