Both he and its vice-president, Paul Cooke, reckon the organisation has finally hit “rock bottom”. Delaney’s avarice was certainly highlighted by the news that on top of his substantial salary, he was due very substantial pension contributions. “That’s an acceptance of that collective failure of a board that I was a part of. Cooke described it all as a “key moment” for the association – by which he presumably meant the one when it has finally sunk so low that the only way now would be up. We shall see, but there was certainly an overdue sense of some uncomfortable truths being told.

Source: The Irish Times December 07, 2019 06:30 UTC