Ian Mallon: How the FAI tried to blame government for letting down women's football

A paper published internally by the FAI for an emergency meeting in 2017 outlines how little was being done with the women’s game to develop players.

A view of FAI HQ in Abbotstown. Pic: ©INPHO

AN EXTRAORDINARY document in which the FAI attempted to blame the Department of Sport and Sport Ireland for its own inability to pay the Women’s National Team has emerged.

The tactic has been revealed in a paper which was published internally for an emergency meeting of the association’s Board of Directors in the wake of the now historic press conference and protest by the players in April 2017.