We take a sideways look at the election.

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

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.

The decision follows high-level meetings between Garda bosses and the ODCE after Sports Ireland referred, last November, an independent audit of FAI finances it commissioned to Garda HQ.

Sports Minister Shane Ross has welcomed the appointment of three new independent directors of the Football Association of Ireland - but warned that the development does not mean the immediate restoration of government funding to the crisis-hit sporting body.

Despite another day of caustic soundbites from government officials, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) are increasingly confident that their future will be secured in the coming weeks.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has ruled out a taxpayer bailout of the Football Association of Ireland, as the FAI outlined that its liquidation is a serious possibility should such a move fail to materialise.

The Minister’s statement came after the FAI had issued a formal apology for what it termed “the mistakes of the past”.

Delegates attending today’s reconvened annual general meeting of the FAI were informed of the threat of liquidation hovering over the organisation.

The AGM of the Football Association of Ireland has resumed in Dublin. It was adjourned in July after the association was unable to present its accounts to delegates.

At the end of a tumultuous year for the Irish football, delegates will on Sunday face into a third emergency general meeting of the Football Association of Ireland in 2019.

The new Football Association of Ireland board is set to have its first female director after the Schoolboys FAI (SFAI) last night proposed Ursula Scully as their nominee to replace John Earley.

Minister Ross said the Monday meeting, details of which the attending members of the FAI declined to divulge in its aftermath, had been a “sobering” experience.

Sports Minister Shane Ross was right to dismiss an FAI appeal for a €10m bailout.

The Government “is not in the business of bailing out” the debt-ridden FAI under any circumstances.

The FAI’s executive lead Paul Cooke tonight refused to deny a claim by Sports Minister Shane Ross that the association have sought a bailout of over €10m.

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.

“I'm open to talk to anybody who has got constructive suggestions about the FAI, because the FAI is a complete and utter basketcase."

The Sports Minister says he is willing to talk to those behind a proposal suggesting splitting the FAI to secure Government funding.

The Sports Minister has said that funding to the FAI cannot be restored until it has completed a massive overhaul of its corporate governance and leadership.

Donal Conway is to step down as President of the Football Association of Ireland at an EGM on January 25, 2020.

The Football Association of Ireland are prepared to defy Sports Minister Shane Ross by appointing a new chief executive without his imprimatur.

The FAI have switched Vice-President Paul Cooke to a full-time position of executive lead as their search for a new CEO continues.

The Taoiseach has said a report into finance and governance issues at the FAI should be published "as soon as possible".

The FAI’s caretaker general, manager Noel Mooney, says he could not understand John Delaney’s focus on having the association debt-free by 2020.

The reported payoff might stick in the craw, but in terms of the price Irish football has paid for John Delaney’s tenure, it is just the tip of the iceberg, writes Joe Leogue

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said “more needs to be done” by the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) if state funding is to be restored, despite former CEO John Delaney’s resignation on Saturday night.

In letters seen by the Irish Examiner, Mr Harris has called internet company bosses to a meeting to focus on how to combat the spread of misinformation about vaccinations.

Donal Conway has been re-elected as President of the Football Association of Ireland at its AGM in Co. Meath.

The Ryder Cup looks set to come to Ireland in 2026, with the government to approve funding to host the golf tournament this afternoon.

Noel Mooney hasn’t ruled out seeking to become the next CEO of the FAI, though he has described the prospect as “extremely unlikely”.

After the historic Open win, the mammoth celebrations.

The Minister for Sport Shane Ross has said that he cannot interfere in the independence of the FAI and cannot endorse a situation where “some of the old regime” is still in place.

FAI President Donal Conway has said he is “absolutely delighted” that delegates at today’s EGM in Dunboyne gave what he described as their “resounding” backing to proposals for comprehensive reform of the association.

The chair of the group tasked with a Governance Review of the FAI, has said its recommendations are not “an a la carte menu” and must all be collectively accepted or rejected by the association’s members.

The organisation responsible for the development of sport in Ireland said it cannot give assurances that the FAI is solvent, and that it would expect football’s international governing bodies to “bail out” the association if it were to go into liquidation.

Sports Minister Shane Ross has put the Government on a new collision course with the FAI after asking the football body’s president to step down from his role.

Sports Minister Shane Ross has accused Donal Conway of reneging on a promise to step down from the FAI at the upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM after he was nominated unopposed to continue in the role of president of the association.