John Fallon: FAI need to face Leinster House questions head on

For the game’s sake, it’s high time they dispensed with the footwork and kept their limbs firmly intact when asked to account for a mess of their own making.

FAI chief executive officer David Courell. Pic: Ryan Byrne/Inpho

IF Ireland’s wingers had exhibited the dexterity shown in recent days by their FAI overlords, the World Cup campaign wouldn’t be already on life support.

There was a whiff of Lanigan’s Ball about the frenzied and contorted method of the association eventually coming to their senses and being dutiful guests of an Oireachtas committee today.