Ross: Players should not pay for 'mistakes of the FAI top brass'

Sport Ireland have approved payment of 2019 grant funding worth €195,000 to the Women’s National Football Team, with the disbursement of the money to be overseen, not by the FAI, but the accountancy and business advisory firm BDO.

Ross: Players should not pay for 'mistakes of the FAI top brass'

Sport Ireland have approved payment of 2019 grant funding worth €195,000 to the Women’s National Football Team, with the disbursement of the money to be overseen, not by the FAI, but the accountancy and business advisory firm BDO.

Welcoming the decision, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Shane Ross TD said that “innocent players” should not pay for the “mistakes of the FAI top brass”.

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