‘I’m for all the Rebels’: Gerry McAnaney

As he stepped into the public glare following his election on Saturday, new FAI president Gerry McAnaney was immediately at pains to clarify, in deference to his father’s Donegal roots, that the family surname is pronounced ‘Mac-a-nanny’.

He revealed that his Killea-born dad worked with the father of guitar legend Rory Gallagher in Ballyshannon before his ESB job took him to Dublin, where Gerry grew up.