Person: John Earley

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DDSL chairman Paddy Dempsey. Photo by Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile

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DDSL perform U-turn after FAI rebuke

Intervention by the FAI’s top interim executives, Gary Owens and Niall Quinn, has triggered a U-turn on controversial changes planned by the largest schoolboy league in the country.

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Quinn: FAI outlook not as bad as I thought

Niall Quinn has told Football Association of Ireland staff that the financial outlook isn’t as bad as he’d feared.

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Government and Uefa agreed 'in principle' to share burden of solving FAI's huge debt

Sports Minister Shane Ross has given the strongest indication yet that the government and Uefa are willing to jointly bail out the FAI from their parlous €60m-plus debt.

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New FAI board to have its first female director

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FAI’s perilous state casts doubt on Irish football future

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Shane Ross: FAI sought €10m bailout

Paddy Dempsey to join FAI board

The change of guard on the the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) board will continue in the coming weeks as Paddy Dempsey is set to replace John Earley as the schoolboys' sector delegate.

Sat, 14 Dec, 2019

Tommy Martin: Dousing the flames of an administrative inferno

You’d almost feel sorry for Donal Conway.

Thu, 12 Dec, 2019

Cooke the front-runner in terms of credentials and timing

Is it a poisoned chalice or an opportunity of a lifetime?

Tue, 01 Oct, 2019

Niall Quinn accuses FAI of ‘circling wagons’ on reform

Niall Quinn has slammed the FAI’s reform bid, claiming he’s no interest in joining the new board.

Tue, 27 Aug, 2019

Mooney ‘was not aware’ of €300k walk payments

Noel Mooney has denied knowledge of the FAI’s €300,000 payment to the creator of a sponsored walk idea.

Tue, 27 Aug, 2019

Earley: Don’t punish all of us for past mistakes at FAI, Minister Ross

FAI board member John Earley is pleading with Minister Shane Ross not to punish Irish football for the mistakes of the past.

Thu, 01 Aug, 2019

Executive recruitment agency appointed to recruit FAI's independent directors

Executive recruitment agency Amrop have been tasked with selecting the independent directors for the new 12-person FAI board.

Tue, 30 Jul, 2019

Conway denies UEFA are now calling shots at FAI

Donal Conway insists it’s not yet possible to put a final figure on the full extent of UEFA’s bail-out of the FAI, but he expects the picture to be clarified in August when an agreement between the two bodies will be signed.

Mon, 29 Jul, 2019

FAI President: 'I've always held out an olive branch to Minister Ross'

Following his re-election as FAI President and the filling of eight places on a new 12-person board, Donal Conway has said that he believes stability has been returned to the embattled organisation.

Sat, 27 Jul, 2019

No ordinary year, no ordinary AGM

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.

Sat, 27 Jul, 2019

FAI plan runs into schoolboys trouble

The numbers are not adding up for the FAI in their bid to push through governance reforms next month to restore state funding.

Mon, 24 Jun, 2019

FAI governance report recommends radical reform following Delaney controversy

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.

Fri, 21 Jun, 2019

John Earley resigns from FAI board with immediate effect

John Earley, chairman of the Schoolboys Football Association of Ireland (SFAI), has resigned from the board of the FAI.

Wed, 19 Jun, 2019

RNLI in water safety appeal

The RNLI will launch a renewed drowning prevention campaign today after the third inland water drowning tragedy in a week.

Thu, 07 Jun, 2018

Cost to State of rolling out broadband ‘at over €1bn’

The cost of rolling out broadband across the State could cost the Government well over €1bn — considerably more than currently anticipated, an expert has claimed.

Wed, 31 May, 2017