Use aid leverage to clear the air: FAI faces credibility crisis

Politicians understand the power of sport and how its reflected glory — never the alternative — can endear them to fans of one code or another.

As early as February, 1922, well before the Civil War, government agreed a grant of £10,000 would be made so Croke Park could host what was fantastically described as a Gaelic Olympics — the Tailteann Games.