FAI and McCarthy set to call it quits

FAI OFFICIALS are ready to meet with Mick McCarthy this week to discuss the departure of Ireland’s team manager after six years in the job.

They will not attempt to enforce the contract McCarthy signed in June, which was to run until February 2004.

McCarthy is currently on a round of promotional assignments in England to sell his recently-published World Cup diary and is scheduled to begin a tour of Irish venues at the end of the week. Included in his schedule is an appearance on Friday’s ‘Late Late Show’.