New FAI deputy chief executive Niall Quinn has refused to dismiss the prospect of Roy Keane returning to work for the organisation.

Ask any long-suffering Liverpool fan like me what's been missing over the last 30 years, and one name comes to mind - Graeme Souness.

The Thin Air Podcast: A sort of Song Exploder for Irish acts, its second season has just concluded, with Danny Carroll, a musician in his own right, talking to Junior Brother, Girl Band, Just Mustard and Soak about one of the songs.

“I’m not bothered what length of contract he’s got, it’s about playing football, and he was deprived of that because of his age.”

From Lansdowne Road to Wembley and from Palermo to Ibaraki, Niall Quinn enjoyed plenty of euphoric moments in the green shirt.

In the depths of Irish football’s winter of discontent, Niall Quinn allowed himself to briefly dream of a glorious summer.

"If there's a role I can be used in, in a capacity that somehow bring trusts and capability from all of the stakeholders... I would gladly do it."

Minister for Sport Shane Ross has tonight welcomed the appointment of Independent directors to the board of the FAI.

The FAI have announced the appointment of Roy Barrett, the MD of Goodbody Stockbrokers, as their new Independent Chairman.

The closing of one year and the opening of another might be a time to reflect on why the state of vernacular as spoken and written in this country has gone bananas.

It cannot be easy to play at the top level of English soccer for more than six decades. But the great Roy Race is still going strong.

Sonia at 50, then.

When Glenn Whelan ‘retired’ from international football, a stop watch rather than a gold watch would have been a more appropriate gift.

History repeats itself and all that, so Irish football fans watched the fallout from the Raheem Sterling-Joe Gomez spat this week with special interest.

Even Roy couldn't get a fish supper off of Conor and Jock!

Damien Delaney's football journey has taken him from Cork to the Premier League and back to Cork again. And along the way, he's encountered remarkable characters and learned valuable lessons that shaped his professional career.

It is with a certain amused disdain that I daily digest the dispatches from colleagues out beyond in the Land Of The Rising Scrum, with all that mildly anguished stuff about finding themselves strangers in a strange land.

Jonathan Walters is one of the few people Shane Supple is still in contact with from his time as a professional footballer in England.

Gary Neville, the former Manchester United and England defender, believes Roy Keane is a significantly smaller managerial “risk” for clubs now than at any stage of his coaching career.

The late father of former Republic of Ireland player and Assistant Manager, Roy Keane, considered all of his children to be stars, his funeral mass has heard.

The funeral of Mossie Keane, the father of former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland footballer Roy Keane, will take place on Saturday morning.

The father of former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland footballer Roy Keane has died after a long illness.

Baby steps but significant ones. That was Mick McCarthy’s assessment after witnessing James McCarthy’s first appearance in a Crystal Palace shirt.

The squad for the Euro 2020 qualifier against Switzerland will be announced on Friday.

Stephen Kelly, who played under Roy Hodgson at Fulham, believes the former England manager is just the man to get the best out of James McCarthy at Crystal Palace and help the midfielder refloat his international career.

At the beginning of July, I received the following text message.

An improbable career-best knock of 92 from nightwatchman Jack Leach underpinned England’s fightback against Ireland at Lord’s but the visitors remained in the hunt for one of Test cricket’s biggest upsets.

Losing just the wicket of Rory Burns, who scored just six runs, England got back into the game.

Murtagh was the star of the morning’s show with five wickets for just 13 runs from nine overs.

It felt like a missed opportunity on Thursday when 30 unique practices of Irish cultural heritage were recognised by the state — and there was no place for the pre-match shemozzle.

Timothy L O’Brien says describing Donald Trump’s racist baiting of four new Democratic congresswomen of different ethnic backgrounds as ‘strategic’ gives him too much credit.

Conor Hourihane’s first taste of competitive English football was a League Two draw between Plymouth Argyle and Shrewsbury Town at the compact New Meadow Stadium just shy of eight years ago.

Cork are Cork. Or are they?

It was a case of The Snapper and the Yapper in Schull today as the Fastnet Film Festival handed the novelist one of two inaugural awards for outstanding contribution to cinema, while at a well-attended noontime Q&A Doyle outlined his thoughts on the creative process, his daily rituals, and the power of dreams.

Manchester United starlet Ben Thornley’s burgeoning career was derailed by a tackle that resulted in the Bury native having knee ligaments looking like a ‘book opened up on its spine’.

Carmel Collins and her family faced down violence and intimidation from gangland thugs who murdered her innocent son Roy, so that other families would not have to suffer a similar hell, her funeral mass heard today.

Two cuts sent to visual Qualification for Euro 2020 gets under way this evening, and the big boys have been limbering up in their own inimitable way.

The first distillery to be built on an Irish island in modern times is nearing completion and those behind it have already trademarked the gin and whiskey it will produce.

Andy Reid has defended Roy Keane's management style from criticism.

A glance at the opposition dug-out at Deepdale will send Sean Maguire’s thoughts back to Turner’s Cross and turn him into a star-struck schoolkid, momentarily at least, when he continues his return to fitness with Championship side Preston this afternoon.