FAI will, after all, appear before Oireachtas sports committee

Minister for Sports Patrick O’Donovan led the government outcry on Tuesday, emphasising that non-attendance by a body in receipt of significant taxpayers’ funds was not an option.

The FAI had indicated on Friday that would not attend the meeting. Pic: Matt Browne/Sportsfile.

There’s been another twist in the FAI’s ongoing Oireachtas committee battle, with a delegation from the association seemingly now willing to attend Wednesday’s scheduled meeting in Kildare Street.

The embattled footballing body on Friday shifted from their initial indication of attendance by withdrawing from the hearing with five days’ notice after “doubting the committee’s intentions”.