Dion Fanning: Irish football can’t handle the truth

The FAI lost control of the story a long time ago and have now reached a point where, after all this time, a significant appointment is expected.

WAVE GOODBYE?:  Ireland's Interim Head Coach John O'Shea after the loss to Switzerland. Picture: Ryan Byrne, Inpho.

The interim managerial career of John O’Shea offers as good a study as any into the state of Irish football.

It would be customary to write the “current state” but this has been the existence for so long that it must qualify as permanent.