Enda Brady: Last week shows that we need to merge our two football associations

It’s beyond ridiculous that a small island fields TWO international football teams. Just look at what the Ireland rugby team is regularly able to achieve, writes Enda Brady
Enda Brady: Last week shows that we need to merge our two football associations

We need radical action to make Irish soccer a force. Photo: INPHO

I was weaving my way through the crowds outside the stadium in Prague on Thursday night when a text pinged in from my father, back home in County Wexford. He had just watched another Irish World Cup dream come to an abrupt end.

He’d texted me the title of a Johnny Logan song, What’s another year?

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