O’Leary steps down from FAI finance role

THE FAI have announced that its finance director, Mark O’Leary, is today leaving the association to return to work in industry and commerce after five years in the job.

The news comes just two weeks after O’Leary delivered the financial report to the FAI AGM in Wexford, during which he sought to reassure delegates that the association could manage its multi-million pound debt on the Aviva Stadium and would have it paid off in the next 10 years.

Yesterday, O’Leary said that he had enjoyed his time working with the FAI during what he described as “a period of rapid growth which saw us become joint owners of the €€411m Aviva Stadium”.