John Fallon: FAI are entitled to dream big

FINANCIALLY STRETCHED: A view of FAI HQ in Abbotstown. Pic: ©INPHO
BUILD it and they will come, promised the FAI’s first high performance director in 2008, but the problem was the pot was too empty to lay a brick. Fast-forward 15 years and the association remains financially stretched.
The absence of a sponsor for the men’s team, and their missing out on the bonanza of qualification for three tournaments on the spin, suffocates cashflow whatever the spin doctors espouse.
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