Tough days ahead, warns FAI president Donal Conway

FAI HQ at Abbotstown yesterday afternoon, the rain teeming down outside and, inside, a mood not a whole lot brighter than the weather, as president Donal Conway, vice president Paul Cooke, and general manager Noel Mooney sat around a table with a group of football journalists, further teasing out matters aired at an earlier press conference which had followed a meeting of the newly-convened national council.

It’s not all gloom and doom, of course, since the FAI are always keen to flag the progress they feel they are making in reforming and renewing an organisation laid low by the most damaging crisis in its history.