Schools chief voted on to FAI board

Schoolboy football will have a voice at the FAI top table for the first time since 2007, after Schoolboys FAI (SFAI) chairman Tim Fitzgerald was voted onto the association’s 10-man board.

The Limerick man will assume the prestigious role on foot of his election as chairman of the underage committee, one of the FAI’s key committees. Fitzgerald’s predecessor in that role, Donal Conway, became vice-president at the FAI’s AGM in Athlone last month, creating a vacancy.

The elevation of Fitzgerald — elected unopposed by his 11 fellow committee members on Wednesday — means the board has its first new member in four years.