If you check out the coaching section of the FAI website you'll see down the page a bit that Level 1 is the equivalent of holding the Youth Cert at the moment.
http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=c...d=85&Itemid=97
On the UEFA "B" License page it says:
"ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
Course candidates will be Coaches with a FAI Level 1 Youth Certificate. UEFA “B” Licence is part of the Level 2 Coaching programme within the FAI’s Coach Education Scheme. It is recommended that a minimum period of 12-months should have elapsed following completion of Youth Cert before applying for the UEFA “B” Licence, and all applicants should be actively coaching at an appropriate level."
http://www.fai.ie/images/stories/Foo..._B_Licence.pdf
So it seems to be that you are still eligible to move on to the next level of the pyramid.
The FAI change the overall structure a few years ago and were the first football association to make such changes, which led to UEFA basing their recommended structure on the one the FAI implemented.
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