Top four asked to contribute European cash to League of Ireland fund

In the Dáil last night, Ross rejected as “absurd” the “suggestion that there is some overlap or some association between the old and the new board of the FAI”. Photo: INPHO/Ciaran Culligan

A return of the League of Ireland remains in doubt after it emerged yesterday that the FAI’s financial package, believed to total €1.7m, included as well as scheduled Uefa solidarity payments, a proposal that last year’s top four finishers — Dundalk, Shamrock Rovers, Bohemians and Derry — would contribute €100,000 each from their European prize money.