FAI chief in medical scare

FAI PRESIDENT Milo Corcoran had to disembark from the Irish team’s flight home from Tel Aviv yesterday and remain on in Israel due to a medical scare just prior to take-off at Ben Gurion Airport.

Flight ISR111, the official FAI charter plane carrying the Irish senior and U21 squads, most of the Irish media corps and a number of supporters, was taxiing for take-off at 11am local time when Corcoran complained that he was feeling faint.

The long-serving FAI official was immediately attended to by the Irish senior team’s chief medic, Dr Alan Byrne and his counterpart with the U21s, Dr Conal Hooper, and underwent an ECG scan in an ambulance parked beside the plane.