As he stepped into the public glare following his election on Saturday, new FAI president Gerry McAnaney was immediately at pains to clarify, in deference to his father’s Donegal roots, that the family surname is pronounced ‘Mac-a-nanny’.

It is more than a quarter of a century since Roy Keane first togged out for Cobh Ramblers, but he was back at his old stomping ground last night, taking part in a charity fundraiser.