Dolan calls on FAI to step in

PAT DOLAN has called on the FAI to intervene in the crisis which has all but ended Cork City’s existence.

Dolan ended his managerial tenure on Leeside under a cloud at the start of 2005 but said that it was dispiriting to see the club go into freefall and claimed the issue would act as a “litmus test” for the FAI’s running of football in this country.

“How on earth, having been in liquidation last year, can they have a budget passed under this (the League of Ireland) licensing (system), is quite extraordinary?” Dolan asked yesterday when contacted by the Irish Examiner.