The Football Association of Ireland has issued details of the Fifa €5m payoff, while its board maintains it acted at “all times in the best interests of Irish football, and in full compliance with Irish company law”.

Sports law experts have openly queried how any FAI legal action over the French ‘handball’ goal in the 2009 World Cup play-off would have succeeded — despite it resulting in a €5m payment from world governing body Fifa.

The share prices of hot new online companies have fluctuated wildly in recent times. Is it a bubble, asks Kyran Fitzgerald.

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After a couple of turbulent years at overseas aid agency Goal, including the controversial departure of founder John O’Shea, the charity’s new chief, Barry Andrews, tells Catherine Shanahan that he looks forward to the day when Goal’s work, not its staff, makes the headlines

John O’Shea is stepping down as chief executive of Goal and, in keeping with his personality, he hasn’t gone quietly.

Goal founder John O’Shea has blocked a bid to suspend him, denying claims of bullying and alleging there was a “concerted action” to remove him from his post.

The chairman of Goal has confirmed a “plan of succession” is under way for when chief executive and founder John O’Shea decides to step down.

A culture of secrecy and resistance to reform at senior management level fed into Fran Rooney’s negative experience at Goal prior to his quitting the board last December.

International aid agency Goal has rejected suggestions that it withheld information from government auditors during an examination of how it spent €14 million in state funding.

THE former chair of international aid agency GOAL has said he decided to quit his position on foot of being told by the charity’s chief executive he had no trust or confidence in him.

The board of the Irish charity GOAL has its pledged "full confidence and support" to the chief executive John O'Shea.

One of the directors of the humanitarian agency GOAL has quit his post less than four months after taking up the position.

THE former chief executive of the Football Association of Ireland has resigned in dramatic fashion from his position on the board of international aid agency GOAL following strong differences of opinion with the chief executive, John O’Shea.

HE’S the latest of the Irish football management wild geese to take wing to exotic foreign climes – and trust Roddy Collins to bid farewell to his home town with a memorable soundbyte.

IT WAS the Bible rewritten: from revelation to Genesis, rather than the other way around.

BALTIMORE, the technology company once valued at €10 billion, is to make a return to the stock market.

VIMIO, a Dublin-based technology company chaired by the former Football Association of Ireland (FAI) chief executive Fran Rooney, plans to list on the London Stock Exchange.

THE Football Association of Ireland holds its AGM in Waterford today with its face set firmly towards the challenges of the future.

WITH Shamrock Rovers set to respond today to FAI questions about irregularities in their Club License application, the club were yesterday putting on a show of unity ahead of Friday’s night’s Premier Division game against Cork City at Dalymount Park.

AS WAS widely anticipated, John Delaney is the new Chief Executive of the Football Association of Ireland. Sports Minister John O'Donoghue has welcomed his appointment, describing the selection process as "fair, open and transparent."

EIGHT candidates, including the interim holder of the post, John Delaney, are in the process of being interviewed for the job of Chief Executive of the FAI.

SUGGESTIONS of a new crisis brewing in the relationship between the FAI and Government were being played down yesterday following reports of the rejection by the Irish Sports Council of FAI nominees to the interview panel for the association’s position of chief executive.

THE Football Association of Ireland and sportswear company Umbro have agreed a sponsorship deal worth a minimum of €10 million over the next six years.

GAA 1, Soccer 0 — that’s the scoreline when it comes to knowing a merry prankster when they see one.

SPORTS Minister John O’Donoghue believes that the FAI should “comprise a minority” on the interview panel to select a new chief executive for the Association.

THE ongoing restructuring of the Irish Hockey Association (IHA) took a significant step forward yesterday with the appointment of 32-year Paul Varian as the association’s first chief executive.

Sports Minister John O'Donoghue has called on the Football Association of Ireland to implement the Genesis Report drawn up in the wake of the Saipan fiasco more than two years ago.

SPORTS Minister John O’Donoghue yesterday claimed the FAI needed to ‘grow up’ and threatened funding would be withdrawn if the association does not comply with Government requests.

THE FALLOUT from the Fran Rooney saga continued yesterday with the resignation of Declan Ó Luanaigh as chairman of the Eircom League.

FAI RANK and file are on a collision course with the Government over the appointment of a new chief executive for the association.

FAI officials are adamant the Genesis report will be fully implemented, in spite of the resignation of chief executive Fran Rooney.

ACCORDING to some reports, the Fran Rooney era ended with an agreement struck at night in a car park.

SOMETHING is radically wrong at the Football Association of Ireland.

The Football Association of Ireland could face a fans’ revolt in the wake of the resignation of chief executive Fran Rooney, it emerged tonight.

The Football Association of Ireland has issued a statement confirming that its chief executive, Fran Rooney, is to leave his post on Friday after a year and a half in the job.

The Football Association of Ireland is expected to issue a statement this morning following reports that Fran Rooney had resigned as chief executive.

Today is the deadline for the appointment of four senior executives to the Football Association of Ireland.

At its meeting this evening , the eircom League Board of Control has taken the decision to write to FAI president Milo Corcoran expressing its dissatisfaction with the performance of FAI CEO Fran Rooney in relation to League affairs.

THE FAI board of management will meet again tomorrow in the ongoing feud that is engulfing the association.

The Chief Executive of the FAI, Fran Rooney, remains in charge of Irish soccer this evening.

The FAI is holding an emergency board meeting today, where it is likely to sanction an investigation into Fran Rooney's performance as chief executive of the association.

THE position of embattled chief executive, Fran Rooney, will be discussed at a specially convened FAI board of management meeting in Dublin today.