FAI 'shocked' by SIPTU warning

The Board of the FAI has said it is “shocked and disappointed” by SIPTU's claim that there is a threat the Association could become insolvent in a matter of weeks.

In a statement calling for an urgent meeting with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross, to discuss what SIPTU said was as “the threat to jobs in the FAI due to the precarious financial situation of the organisation”, the union’s Sport Sector Organiser Denis Hynes Hynes said: “We have received information that the FAI is in an extremely precarious financial situation with a threat of the organisation becoming insolvent in only a matter of weeks. This has caused great concern to our members who are employed by the FAI.”