FAI finances

[BonnieShels]

Emmet Malone echoes Paul's point about the uselessness of 1996 as the reference point and provides numbers.

I'm dashing out now so maybe someone else can post the link to his full article?

Here it is...

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/socc...lone-1.1878560

[geysir]

The bit of reporting that caught my eye was The Irish Times referencing The Sun.

It was reported in The Sun yesterday, meanwhile, that Denis O’Brien is contributing €910,000 per annum to the association’s wage bill for the Irish management team with O’Neill receiving a salary of €1 million and Roy Keane getting €300,000 a year.

If (and it's a bit of an if) that's true, then the salaries paid are not OTT and can be just about justified in the light of O'Brien's contribution.

edit; probably those figures of €1M and €300k are what the FAI pay to O'Neil and Keane, the O''Brien contribution comes on top of that, therefore the total salaries earned by the manager and his assistant comes to € 2.2m.

[gastric]

It reads like a report from a North Korean or Russian parliamentary session. I feel like there is no hope for Irish football when I read about such charades.

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/socc...-agm-1.1879778

[Stuttgart88]

It's a publicly funded organisation so some form of public pressure should be exerted to scrutinise the FAI's workings.

Pressure was put on the English FA to reform in 2005 resulting in this , which was not fully acted upon.

In 2011 Parliament initiated a new enquiry into the affairs of English football, although primarily to address the crazy financial shenanigans.

If a similar review of Irish football was undertaken does anyone think the current FAI structure would remain?

[Stuttgart88]

A bit more meat on the bone here in The Indo

http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30463645.html

This article includes the questions presented to the FAI by the media but which were ignored.


Of these questions most are appropriate but I don't see the value in asking silly stuff like "do you regret the pricing of the Vantage scheme?". It serves no purpose and is only antagonistic. And I don't think Celtic Tiger era hubris is biggest charge that could be levelled at the FAI.

Interesting that there seems to be a move to properly coordinate the game structure of underage football, although the Indo seems sceptical that it'll get done. This is a Ruud Dokter initiative. Hardly visionary, but definitely worthwhile.

And why the interest in Paul Doolin? I presume most want him out, rather than some genuine humanitarian concern over his career outlook.

[paul_oshea]

Geysir, you will have to omit that from the collage of wrongs

I got that from a friend, which if you had read the post properly you would have understood that, I also quoted it which should have been a bit of giveaway too! ; )

[Stuttgart88]

See the Indo article above.

See the picture.

Refer to previous comments about blazer culture.

The blokes to JD's left. No wonder they want to extend the officer's retirement age to 75.

Now look to JD's right. I've always had a mantra at work: never trust a bloke who wears a lemon shirt.

The future of Irish football is in these guys' hands.

[tetsujin1979]

Geysir, you will have to omit that from the collage of wrongs

I got that from a friend, which if you had read the post properly you would have understood that, I also quoted it which should have been a bit of giveaway too! ; )

and of course, there was no time for you to do any research on the points raised in the message

[Dodge]

And why the interest in Paul Doolin? I presume most want him out, rather than some genuine humanitarian concern over his career outlook.

Token football question

[paul_oshea]

and of course, there was no time for you to do any research on the points raised in the message

Exactly tets, i dont have time like you to do all this background searching and stuff. :P

I knew there would be people on here that would have that information to hand, and save us all time.

[paul_oshea]

See the Indo article above.

See the picture.

Refer to previous comments about blazer culture.

The blokes to JD's left. No wonder they want to extend the officer's retirement age to 75.

Now look to JD's right. I've always had a mantra at work: never trust a bloke who wears a lemon shirt.

The future of Irish football is in these guys' hands.

Mine is people who wear short sleeve shirts.

The man in the Lemon shirt, is a lemon, formely of lemon brothers.

ON a side crosby curveball. I've been "selected" for jury duty, the only thing I have probably ever been picked for involving more than me, any of you guys able to help me to compose a crypto-communist phraseology of a response, or I am predjudiced by my beliefs in a 32 county free state and do not recognise the British Courts system.

[tetsujin1979]

Exactly tets, i dont have time like you to do all this background searching and stuff. :P

I knew there would be people on here that would have that information to hand, and save us all time.

so you just posted something without verifying it first? Piers Morgan would be proud

[paul_oshea]

Who is he tets? Is that social media?

[Eminence Grise]

It might be better to take some coverage of the AGM away from the sports pages and put it in the hands of the business editors for a different perspective and a different way of looking at a set of accounts. The kind of questions a Shane Ross, John McManus or Cliff Taylor would ask might not be so easily ignored.

[bennocelt]

Mine is people who wear short sleeve shirts.

The man in the Lemon shirt, is a lemon, formely of lemon brothers.

ON a side crosby curveball. I've been "selected" for jury duty, the only thing I have probably ever been picked for involving more than me, any of you guys able to help me to compose a crypto-communist phraseology of a response, or I am predjudiced by my beliefs in a 32 county free state and do not recognise the British Courts system.

Is that not half of all irish men?

[paul_oshea]

IF doing manly irish things you are obvioulsy exempt such as, footing turf, filling turf, bringing home the hay, out feeding the cattle, etc etc.

If you work in an office or in anything other than "working the land" then you fall under this category.

[Stuttgart88]

Is that not half of all irish men?

I have the same view as Paul.

I had a boss once who wore a short-sleeved lemon shirt. Failure on two counts. He also wore dark tinted glasses. He committed so many unforgivable fashion crimes he had no credibility at all.

He also had unfeasible hairy forearms. We nicknamed him The Hairy Lemon.

I'd bet anything that at weekends we wears his polo shirt tucked into his cargo pants and wears long socks.

As does half of Ireland too, over a certain age anyway.

[paul_oshea]

Did he own that pub on stephen street lower by any chance?

[DannyInvincible]

'The FAI millions: where they come from and how they’re spent': http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/socc...pent-1.2264229

[Stuttgart88]

I think I read somewhere that although FIFA pays a lot of money to where it's needed / wanted, a huge % actually gets paid to FIFA itself - and that's what is actually disclosed.