FAI must prove commitment to women’s league

Like much of last season, there was an element of farce to the FAI’s launch of the women’s league yesterday ahead of the first series of games this weekend, writes John Fallon.

The meeting on Sunday of champions Wexford Youths and Shelbourne, the team from whom they claimed the title, seemed an ideal event to promote as a season-opener — had the association not chosen to keep the media out of the launch at Abbotstown.

The excuse provided by the hierarchy, that the event was confined to a photocall because it had been hastily arranged, doesn’t wash.