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    The FAI Licensing Appeals Committee

    The FAI licensing appeals committee is chaired by Gerry O'Mahoney.
    The other members are
    Accountant Philip Barton
    Lawyer Martin Giblin
    Surveyor Ciaran Sudway
    retired Garda Superintendent Joe Harte
    Irish Basketball Association chief executive Debbie Massey
    former IRFU president Noel Murphy
    Theresa Hurley from the sports studies department at UCD.

    Basketball, Rugby?
    What particular expertise are these people bringing?

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    Well the 5 categories are finance, safety, legal, sporting administration
    and infrastrucutre so I presume they are looking at how other sports
    manage to get these right.

    Also the committee is to be masde up of people independent of the FAI

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    Quote Originally Posted by patsh
    The FAI licensing appeals committee is chaired by Gerry O'Mahoney.
    The other members are
    Accountant Philip Barton
    Lawyer Martin Giblin
    Surveyor Ciaran Sudway
    retired Garda Superintendent Joe Harte
    Irish Basketball Association chief executive Debbie Massey
    former IRFU president Noel Murphy
    Theresa Hurley from the sports studies department at UCD.

    Basketball, Rugby?
    What particular expertise are these people bringing?
    Sports administration I would imagine. You don't need to be steeped in football to know how to run a business.

    Lets face it, the Chairman of the Irish Tiddliwinks Association would lend more administrative know-how and gravitas that any of the current football administrators.......

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    [QUOTE=patsh]...sports studies department at UCD... [QUOTE]

    What do they do? "Study" a lot of matches on Sky Sports?

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    Foot.ie!

    Is there any chance the above committee could be appointed to the FAI Council while the Government appoints officers from the civil service, business and former Irish managers such as Eoin Hand, John Giles and Liam Brady (i.e. Celtic) instead of the current crew.

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    If the FAI want expertise on Sports administration, surely they can do better than a past President (which is a honary title) of an amateur game?

    When Murphy was around, rugger looked down on professional players and somehow managed to believe they were all "gentlemen". Can't see what this guy brings to the table except a superior attitude.

    Maybe the Basketball admin is a good choice, as she is in charge of sport which has a mix of amateur/semi & fully pro players.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pete
    Quote Originally Posted by patsh
    ...sports studies department at UCD...
    What do they do? "Study" a lot of matches on Sky Sports?
    Bit of drinking there too! Looks like we're sorted for our appeal so!

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