‘Mighty Quinn’ up for another mighty challenge after answering FAI’s call

Thirty years after he emerged on the world stage at Italia 90 as ‘The Mighty Quinn’, the big man is being asked to lead Irish football from the front again.

It might be more in the way of providing the assists this time, as — deep breath — deputy interim CEO to newly-appointed interim CEO Gary Owens, but Quinn’s arrival in Abbotstown is undeniably the most box-office appointment yet in the rapidly changing face, and faces, of the FAI.