Finding green shoots in a dark age for Irish football

At a time when the FAI is in the dock, former Cork City player Derek Coughlan argues that the important work which has been done to develop our young football talent deserves to be acknowledged

Finding green shoots in a dark age for Irish football

At a time when the FAI is in the dock, former Cork City player Derek Coughlan argues that the important work which has been done to develop our young football talent deserves to be acknowledged

The figures which have been bandied about regarding John Delaney’s salary and expenses are especially hard to stomach when it would take at least 15 League of Ireland players on an average professional salary and the sum total of our Premier and First division winners’ prize fund, before the scales would start to balance.

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