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.

You’d almost feel sorry for Donal Conway.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.