Michael Moynihan: Sports make their cases for rescue funding

FAI interim CEO Gary Owens at Dáil Éireann on Friday. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Last Friday, representatives of the FAI, GAA, and IRFU went to meet the Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response, and they duly painted a stark picture.

Philip Browne of the IRFU said the very existence of professional rugby was in peril in Ireland because of revenue lost to the virus and associated measures to combat it.