Hannah Dingley: 'There are limited resources let’s plough it into the right areas, to strengthen the foundations'

This was the latest wish-list produced, the type state agencies and Uefa cherish, in succession to the FAI strategy 2022-2025 and Marc Canham’s football pathways plan.

FUTURE PLANNING: FAI Head of Women & Girls' Football Hannah Dingley set out the Women's Action Plan. Pic: ©INPHO/Ben Brady

Understandably cautious from previous missed targets – and the FAI’s stark financial state – Hannah Dingley is favouring substance or statistics in her action plan for the women’s game.

Tuesday’s unveiling at the Mansion House in Dublin was the first time since she joined the FAI from Forest Green Rovers almost a year ago that the head of women’s and girls’ football offered her views publicly.