Uefa give FAI digout to help meet stadium repayments

Uefa have stepped in to help the Football Association of Ireland meet its debt repayments for the Aviva Stadium.

The organisation has confirmed is has advanced a “solidarity payment”, understood to amount to several million euro from its development fund, to the FAI.

Finance director Josef Koller told The Sunday Times: “It is a really difficult situation, because of the economic crisis, and we said ‘Okay, we can advance certain solidarity payments’.”