FAI plot three routes to €160m - all with complications

This is a different FAI regime, upfront about the financial challenges hampering the game’s progress.

FAI Independent Chairperson Tony Keohane, FAI Interim CEO David Courell and FAI President Paul Cooke speak to the media after the AGM. Pic: ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

At least heads weren’t being called for. Compared to last year’s fractious annual general meeting, the FAI emerged from this one bruised but not battered.

Ten months after Jonathan Hill was informed his position as CEO was untenable and Roy Barrett’s Chairmanship ended to the sound of his footsteps, one accusation of lying was the height of the flak they shipped from members in the same Radisson Blu conference room.