Fifa ethics team continues to probe FAI payment

FIFA’s independent Ethics Committee is continuing to study the secret €5m agreement between FIFA and the FAI, and could yet open a formal investigation into the affair.

Details of the January 2010 deal, reached after Ireland’s controversial World Cup play-off defeat by France two months earlier, were published in full in June this year.

The independent Ethics Committee, which recently imposed provisional 90-day bans on FIFA president Sepp Blatter, vice-president Michel Platini and general-secretary Jérôme Valcke, is currently examining documents relating to the confidential agreement.