Sport Ireland can’t communicate and negotiate with empty chairs. For while yesterday was an awful, humiliating day for the FAI, it was a great one for Irish football itself. For a long time now, the FAI have been the great erratic, the great outlier, of Irish sport. But quite clearly now, Irish sport, or at least Sport Ireland, has had enough of it. And with it, Irish football should finally be provided with the governing body the game itself and its players and people deserve.

Source: Irish Examiner April 16, 2019 23:03 UTC