Potential ramifications for LOI after todays FAI accounts debacle.

[sbgawa]

New FAI Management team have persuaded Ross and the Government to "bail out " the FAI, details being announced this afternoon apparently.
We will be expected to be grateful for this when the Government just gave 20m too Conought rugby and spent 33m renovating the Curragh racecourse not to mention 16m for Greyhounds.
Fair play to the new team but they are really playing uphill with the wind against them to change decades of football being ignored.
Its a start

[SeanDMRooney]

New FAI Management team have persuaded Ross and the Government to "bail out " the FAI, details being announced this afternoon apparently.
We will be expected to be grateful for this when the Government just gave 20m too Conought rugby and spent 33m renovating the Curragh racecourse not to mention 16m for Greyhounds.
Fair play to the new team but they are really playing uphill with the wind against them to change decades of football being ignored.
Its a start

It's not a gift they funded a particular project and our league could do well to have some of the quality of management that Connacht Rugby has. Going from the point where the IRFU were prepared to shutter it to being a competitive side in any sense of the word. I admire what they done there

[sbgawa]

I'm not against the rugger boys getting the money , when you consider the 2m they spent on a printer that the staff wont use in the Dail there is plenty of cash to go around and sport is a good place to spend money.
I just hate the narrative about the football community being "bailed out" we haven't been funded properly or fairly for years.
Hopefully with some professional people at the top now we might get a fairer slice of the cake

[nr637]

A figure of €800,000 is to go towards the development of Men's & Women's domestic National Leagues as part of the details being announced in the Government bailout!

[Nesta99]

If that figure was annual it might have looked like a serous effort!

[sbgawa]

If that figure was annual it might have looked like a serous effort!


My read of it is that it is annual, 5.8m in funding in total per year with 800k for LOI.
depends how you read it

[Scrufil]

Shane Ross just 'bought' a new seat in the next Dáil.

[sbgawa]

Part of the conditions to get the cash from govt is council members with 10 years service have to retire and all former board members are not eligible for fai committees. This is a fantastic initiative...starting to really think the new fai mangt know what they are doing

[sbgawa]

Also a review to decide of the role IF ANY of the council .
The council is going to become a talking shop with no influence.