FAI chair Roy Barrett says Marc MacSharry should 'check facts' after Dáil comments

Barrett's “personal statement” was issued through the FAI.

FAI chairman Roy Barrett. Picture: INPHO/Morgan Treacy

FAI chairperson Roy Barrett has reacted strongly to comments made earlier in the day in Dáil Éireann by Fianna Fáil TD Marc MacSharry.

In a what was described as “a personal statement” issued through the FAI, Barrett said: “Firstly, I would like to put on public record my disappointment that Deputy MacSharry would make the following statement using Dáil privilege: ‘Instead of the corruption of the past, it will be a new form of corruption’. I find it objectionable that a deputy would use Dáil privilege to make a statement like that without fear of reproach.