Financial strain adds to pressure on O’Neill

Instead of providing answers on the Football Association of Ireland’s financial outlook, Saturday’s AGM in Arklow only served to raise further questions on the matter.

Delegates attending the annual summit at the Radisson Blu Hotel were required to lodge queries relating to the accounts for 2013 with the association no later than seven days beforehand.

Those documents had shown the FAI to be €50m in debt, despite the successful writedown of €11.7m achieved by switching lenders late during the year.