FAI embrace a new beginning

"We promised 12 months ago we would change the organization and what this meeting has done is to fast-forward that process."

THE sense of a new beginning that pervaded the conference room of the Galway hotel where the FAI held their AGM was so powerful it was tangible.

The 93 delegates who ushered through the revolutionary proposals of the association's executives were so committed, they only just stopped short of acknowledging their decision with a standing ovation.