Disgraced former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has claimed there is no coincidence that his lifetime ban has been announced at the same time that Sepp Blatter is engulfed by a storm of controversy.

Michel Platini has confirmed a £1.3m (€1.75m) payment from Fifa came more than nine years after he worked for the organisation but did not provide the reasons for the lengthy delay.

Swiss prosecutors yesterday opened criminal proceedings against Fifa president Sepp Blatter and questioned Uefa president Michel Platini on another momentous day at football’s world governing body.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter should face a criminal investigation for selling under-valued World Cup television rights to Jack Warner, the governing body’s former anti-corruption adviser said.

Irish football chiefs are taking legal advice over claims that Republic of Ireland players were paid $10,000 (€8,900) each not to tackle Argentina star Lionel Messi during a 2010 friendly.

FIFA has handed over a second batch of computer data to the Swiss attorney general’s office, which is investigating the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Fifa has postponed the announcement of the the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup, due to the corruption crisis that has engulfed the organisation.

A businessman who was indicted by US authorities in connection to the Fifa corruption case has turned himself in to Italian police.

The $10m sent from FIFA to Jack Warner never appeared in the annual accounts of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) and nor did FIFA track the money to ensure it had been invested correctly, it can be disclosed.

Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales should be on their guard against any threat to strip the home nations of their separate status, senior figures have warned.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been accused of staying "silent" on the IBRC deals controversy, Gardaí have launched a murder investigation after a 25-year-old man died in west Dublin, a 58-year-old Irish nun visiting Rome was trapped in an elevator for three days and John Delaney is urged to take a voluntary 50% pay cut. Here’s this evening’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

Jack Warner’s legal battle against extradition to the United States on corruption charges could ’possibly last years’ and even end up being heard by the Privy Council, the Attorney General of Trinidad has said.

Roy Keane insists that the Fifa/FAI controversy is not impacting in any way on Ireland’s preparations for tomorrow’s friendly against England and next Saturday’s Euro qualifier against Scotland.

A defiant departing FIFA president Sepp Blatter is continuing to press forward with his plans for reform within the damaged organisation despite calls for him to have no further involvement.

Qatar World Cup organisers insist the crisis at FIFA will not affect their preparations for the tournament in 2022.

There’s a story that perhaps starts to indicate just how much Sepp Blatter thought of his role at Fifa, and just how unprecedented and unexpected yesterday’s news was.

Between Mr Sepp ‘Steering The Ship’ Blatter (see elsewhere on this page), Mr Patrick ‘Golf Balls’ Neary (see the finance/comedy section) and Mr REDACTED REDACTED’REDACTED (see various legal eagles), it hasn’t been a great few days for prominent personages.

Sepp Blatter has insisted he was not the high-ranking FIFA official who authorised a 10million US dollar payment to the disgraced Jack Warner saying: “Definitely that’s not me.”

Low-paid public servants could be as much as €2,000 better off by the end of 2017, former Fifa vice president Jack Warner left jail in an ambulance, what will the Marriage Referendum mean for children and schools and the top 10 hot trends of the 2015 Championship. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

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Former Fifa vice president Jack Warner turned himself over to police in Trinidad and Tobago yesterday, shortly after they issued an arrest warrant at the request of authorities in the US, where he was one of 14 people linked to international soccer indicted on corruption charges.

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FIFA was plunged into crisis on Wednesday morning after Swiss authorities made early-morning arrests of six football officials and opened separate criminal proceedings over the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has insisted the investigation into 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding will not be reopened despite the world governing body lodging a criminal complaint with the Swiss attorney general over "suspected unlawful activity" of unnamed individuals connected with the bidding contests.

FIFA has lodged a criminal complaint with the Swiss attorney general over “possible misconduct” by individuals in connection with the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

FA chairman Greg Dyke has written to every Fifa executive committee member calling for "urgent action" to ensure ethics investigator Michael Garcia’s report into World Cup bidding is published in full.

FIFA ran a “Wild West” bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups which encouraged would-be hosts to enter into inappropriate behaviour, Britain's former sports minister Hugh Robertson has said.

FIFA’s two ethics chiefs will hold talks in the next few days after the investigation into World Cup bidding descended into a shambles.

FIFA’s hopes of settling the uncertainty over the World Cup hosts were dealt a serious blow after chief ethics investigator Michael Garcia challenged the decision to clear Qatar and Russia to host the 2022 and 2018 tournaments.

The decision to clear Qatar and Russia to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups has been thrown into chaos after FIFA’s chief ethics investigator Michael Garcia announced he will appeal against the ruling on his investigation into bidding for the tournaments.

Qatar have been cleared to host the 2022 World Cup after FIFA’s ethics committee’s investigation into bidding but there is severe embarrassment for England over their bid for the 2018 tournament.

Qatar are expected to escape any censure that would threaten the Middle Eastern state hosting the 2022 tournament.

FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce would be in favour of re-running the vote for the 2022 World Cup if allegations that widespread corruption was involved in the Qatar bid were proven.

Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has dismissed the latest allegations against him as “foolishness” and insists there is a witch hunt against Qatar.

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Mohamed Bin Hammam, the man who tried to challenge Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency, will not face new charges that he bribed Caribbean officials during his campaign, it can be revealed.

Mohamed bin Hammam has vowed to clear his name after FIFA’s ethics committee opened investigation proceedings against him.

FIFA’s ethics committee have opened investigation proceedings against Mohamed bin Hammam.

Mohamed Bin Hammam has had his lifetime FIFA ban annulled by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

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The chief prosecutor in Trinidad has declared that further investigations may be needed into how around $1m was brought into the country and paid to Caribbean football officials last year.

Jack Warner will not face prosecution in his home country of Trinidad over the alleged FIFA bribery scandal.

Mohamed Bin Hammam today makes his final bid to overturn his lifetime FIFA ban for bribery.