Ahern: 'Govt will not compensate FAI'

Communications Minister Dermot Ahern has said that the Government has no plans to compensate the Football Association of Ireland following Sky Television's decision to pull out of a lucrative contract with the association.

Sky had offered to pay €7.5m to the FAI for exclusive television rights to all Irish internationals, but the Government undermined the deal by including competitive games in its official list of "free-to-air" events under the EU's Television Without Frontiers directive.