FAI implement 50% pay deferrals for top earners

Influencing the FAI’s belt-tightening is the likelihood of the Euro play-off against Slovakia being delayed further to the autumn.

The FAI’s biggest earners, including Mick McCarthy, Robbie Keane, and Stephen Kenny, will defer half of their April salary under cutbacks announced by chief executive Gary Owens.

On the back of an email to the 207 FAI employees on Sunday warning of implications from the Covid-19 outbreak, employees were this morning informed of the scheme.