Robert Watt’s diplomacy skills to come under microscope in new FAI role

Robert Watt: Completes the new board as the fourth independent director. Picture: Oireachtas TV/PA

Robert Watt’s famous diplomacy skills will be needed when he enters a fractured FAI boardroom as the last of 12 directors appointed since the association’s upheaval began last year.

John Delaney’s exit was supposed to trigger a new era and, despite the subsequent Governance Review Group (GRP) report introducing much-needed independence, rancour wasn’t long in arriving.