FAI giving the ‘two fingers’

They came, they sat, they parked the bus. A nation had held its breath as John Delaney and the FAI lined up before members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee for Tourism, Transport and Sport in committee room four . Then, the visitors dug in stubbornly for the sort of stalemate that satisfied precisely no one.

Delaney had topped the billing, but he was an almost silent partner yesterday, his input limited for the most part to an opening statement and his insistence that, due to legal advice, he would not be discussing further any matters relating to his 14 years as CEO or his 2017 loan of €100,000 to the FAI.