Dunphy: FAI will learn from Keane affair

Eamonn Dunphy has said he is confident the FAI will learn from the Roy Keane/World Cup debacle which saw the Republic of Ireland skipper sent home from Saipan.

"When the next manager is appointed and this inquiry into the events in Saipan is completed, it will be good for Irish soccer," he said this morning on Today FM.

"Our international players must have the same support as other countries' players - that means no more second-rate hotel rooms and dodgy pitches.

"When the inquiry is finished and a new manager appointed, the FAI will realise this - but it will have to happen after Mick McCarthy's time as manager," the radio presenter and author said.

Keane's autobiography The Game, which was ghostwritten by Dunphy, is being serialised in The Times, and has reopened the bitter row which gripped the country at the start of Ireland's World Cup campaign.