The crisis-hit Football Association of Ireland was dealt another blow after the man lined up to assume the role of Interim CEO backed out at the last minute.

The internet can be a really terrible place, but sometimes good things can come out of it.

Noel Mooney has revealed he is open to Niall Quinn being part of the FAI’s ‘rebirth’ but admits tensions with the Government will not ease until he departs.

The latest in what have become daily revelations over the governance of the Football Association of Ireland yesterday saw the entire board effectively tender their resignations.

An ill-informed minority cannot be allowed to jeopardise Ireland’s bid to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup, the Seanad heard yesterday.

Ireland’s bid to host the 10th Rugby World Cup in 2023 was formally submitted to the World Rugby offices in Dublin yesterday.

James McClean has become the first of the current men’s international team to go public with his backing for the senior women’s side in their dispute with the FAI.

Tyrone county chairperson Roisín Jordan last night revealed her bold vision for a major new GAA stadium in the county. She told delegates at annual convention in Garvaghey the county should aspire to having its own ultra-modern facility.

RTÉ should be congratulated for its magnificent coverage of the Olympic Games. 

Olympic Council of Ireland president Pat Hickey was told by a legal adviser to put Transport and Sport Minister Shane Ross “in his place” on the eve of a crunch meeting in Rio on Sunday night.

Team Ireland’s winning streak at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles continued yesterday with a seven-medal haul.

A couple of weeks ago, yours truly touched on the Páirc Uí Chaoimh funding issue with reference to the wider context, namely the Irish bid to host the Rugby World Cup in 2023, and the other, well-equipped challengers for that honour, like Italy and South Africa.

Cycling Ireland received a massive boost over the weekend as the Government has given a green light for plans for the country’s first indoor velodrome to go out to tender.

Hopes were raised yesterday that the Government may be willing to trim the worst excesses off the savage 8% cut applied to spending on sport announced in last week’s Budget.

Golf fans in 75 countries around the world will find out if they have bagged a ticket for next year’s Ryder Cup today, after record demand.

Working parents in mortgage distress will still have their childcare arrangements dictated by banks despite some last-minute tweaking of the personal insolvency guidelines.

The former chief executive of the Food Safety Authority, Patrick Wall — who was prominent in the recent burger horsemeat controversy — is to become chairman of Horse Sport Ireland.

The Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida opened last week with a double for Shane Sweetnam, and Wednesday saw the Corkman join Conor Swail and Darragh Kenny to kick off week two with a hat-trick of Irish wins.

A code of conduct designed to improve the safety of adventure sports centres is being drawn up after a near- tragedy off the east coast.

The Government has kicked to touch its plans to ban sports sponsorship by the alcohol industry as drugs strategy minister Roisín Shortall admits it may take up to 10 years to enforce it.

New world number one golfer Rory McIlroy should be followed round the globe by Stormont officials to help tap into any tourism potential, according to a politician.

FINE GAEL has taken a swipe at Fianna Fáil after the Government announced major investment in Cork’s publicly-owned swimming pools.

SO much melodrama, so little change. So much time and energy wasted for so very little of any immediate importance or relevance to the country’s future.

WORLD champ Katie Taylor will have a golden ticket to the next level of her brilliant boxing career – the 2012 Olympics.

CONTROVERSIAL former swimming champion Michelle De Bruin, who won three gold medals at the Atlanta Olympics amid unproven allegations that she took drugs, has criticised Irish swimmers and Swim Ireland for not being properly prepared in Beijing.

FOLLOWING the derogatory letter (Irish Examiner, February 21) from the Directors of the Cork Greyhound Racing Company, most of whom are supposed to be representing Cork greyhound owners and breeders ...

FORMER Bord na gCon officials have cost the State body huge sums in payouts and legal costs as part of ‘confidential’ departure payments following disagreements with the board headed by Paschal Tagart.

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INTERNATIONAL show jumper Billy Twomey yesterday said Cian O’Connor deserved the right to due process but admitted the controversy was tainting the sport on an international level.

THE Bertie Bowl appears to be completely scrapped as the Government has ruled out private sector involvement in the National Stadium project.

Next week’s Euro 2004 qualifier between Ireland and Switzerland will not be broadcast on free-to-air television because the Government has failed to finalise its list of protected cultural events.

Bertie Ahern has just been elected Taoiseach of the new Dáil.

Ireland and Scotland are today expected to tell the European Football Authority, Uefa, that the countries’ joint bid to host the Euro 2008 football tournament was still on track.

Sports and recreational projects are to receive a IR£40m lottery windfall in what the Government is billing as the biggest injection of cash in the history of the state.