FAI reach compromise to clear way for Kennedy Cup

Players such as Roy Keane, Damien Duff, Robbie Brady, and, more recently, Jason Knight and Nathan Collins, represented their leagues at the yearly Kennedy Cup

Picture: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

The Under-14 League of Ireland season won’t start until next July to accommodate the completion of the traditional Kennedy Cup tournament.

Tensions have been heightened in recent years from conflict between schoolboys’/girls’ leagues and League of Ireland clubs for Under-14 talent but the FAI board on Tuesday rubberstamped a compromise.