Treacy declines to say ‘yes’ to having confidence in FAI board

It was hardly a surprise that there were more questions than answers when John Treacy faced the Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport yesterday, given that the Sport Ireland chief executive had to admit that the body was still in the dark about the reasons for a controversial €100,000 loan from the FAI’s former chief executive John Delaney to the FAI in 2017.

He was critical of the FAI for failing to “provide any explanation” about the circumstances of the loan and also expressed disappointment at the timing and content of a letter from the association, delivered yesterday morning, which said that it had engaged consultancy firm Mazars to carry out an independent review.