FAI refuse to play ball
They will leave the issue of selecting players for the international team to the incoming manager.
Mr Corcoran was speaking in Athens where Ireland will play Greece tonight in a friendly match and while he would like to see Keane play again at international level he stressed it was not the intention of the association to get involved in the issue of squad selection.
"Roy is a world-class player and you expect to have a lot of talk about him as long as he is playing football. He has been special over the years and he will always be special to Ireland and to Manchester United.
"But it is up to both Roy and the new manager to decide whether or not he plays again. You'd prefer to be going to places like Georgia and Albania with Roy Keane in your squad but it is up to Roy whether he wants to come back and up to the new manager to decide whether he wants him back. We as an association are not going to get involved."
Mr Corcoran predicted that it could take five years for the association to implement in full the recommendations of the Genesis Report.
There was, he claimed, much more urgency about the appointment of a team manager in succession to Mick McCarthy and they planned to have a new man in place before Ireland play Scotland in Glasgow in February and certainly by March 1.
Ireland play Georgia and Albania in European Championship qualifying matches away from home in a five-day period in March.
Mr Corcoran said the Genesis Report was accepted as necessary by the FAI: "Certainly there is a need for change, the board of management accepted that, but to do it in six or 12 months in my opinion is just not on.
"We have a great treasurer, John Delaney, who likes things to be done yesterday but in the real world I don't think you can do that. It has to take a lot of discussion and a lot of planning.
"We do need to have a time schedule and we have a meeting on November 29 in Dundalk and that will be an important meeting to see how long it will take to put all the recommendations in place.
"But I'm not talking about months, I'm talking about years, maybe five years.
"I've no doubt this will be the start of a great new era for Irish football. We have a young squad who have done really well and there is a lot of optimism. The future is certainly bright for Irish football."
Corcoran is part of a three-man team along with Delaney and Kevin Fahy undertaking the task of finding a man to replace McCarthy.
But they will be co-opting a football "expert" to advise them with Liam Brady one of the names being touted as the man whose advice they might seek.
"We have set up this three-man committee and we would hope to add one or possibly two people with international expertise to the committee for their guidance because we know very little in that area," said Corcoran.
"We would rely on one or two people in football to help us. We have a blank sheet of paper and there is nobody on that sheet.
"We've already had a few applications and there is maybe one serious candidate among those, but we need to get into the process and see who is there and who is available.
"I am confident we shall find the right man. I remember having a conversation with Mick McCarthy when there was all that talk about him and the Sunderland job and I told him he already had the best job in the world I think it's a fantastic job.
"I'm glad our target is to have somebody in place by the time we play Scotland in February otherwise it would probably drift on."
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