At last, Irish football supporters will have their voices heard

When the FAI and Sport Ireland published the report of their jointly appointed Governance Reform Group back in June, one of its 78 recommendations flew very much under the radar; namely, the inclusion of two seats for supporter representatives on an expanded FAI Council.

League of Ireland fans, sadly, are familiar with how the processes of examinership and winding up a business work, and had started talking about the need for better governance within Irish football well before FORAS, the supporters trust that owns and runs Cork City FC, were invited to be part an EU-funded football governance project in 2012.