The disgraced John Delaney

Gary McKay wrote: Mentioned in work this morning by the Lithuanian cleaner.

So we are now heading into a quiet period until June. Outside of the Oireachtas committee appearance is there anything else we as supporters can do to push HIM fully out if Irish football before he squirms into UEFA. 

Newryrep wrote: ProudAndLoud wrote: So we are now heading into a quiet period until June. Outside of the Oireachtas committee appearance is there anything else we as supporters can do to push HIM fully out if Irish football before he squirms into UEFA.  For me it looks like he is going to survive. I know the FAI President Donal Conway (who has the game at heart) agenda is to get HIM out of the limelight and celebrity pages until HE gets promotion within UEFA. FAI feel HIM moving to UEFA will be good for the association. I still think no one has the balls to push HIM out the door and keep him there. Can we do anymore ?   its probably like UK civil service where if you wanted rid of somebody you gave them a glowing reference  - maybe the FAI can petition UEFA to take him early   Of course when he goes the 'young Mr Graces' of the FAI Board will all resign and surrender their perks or the old father will finally catch up with them, I know where my money will be..........   Speaking of which are we the only county to have a minutes applause/silence at all games  ?

When was the last game we didn't have a minute's silence/applause? Also, how do they decide which one to go for? Is that what this board is getting paid for?

Edited by pre Madonna - 27 Mar 2019 at 10:37pm

Just going through emails of a few years ago and found this one I sent Paul Lennon in the Star from July 2015 and it is as appropriate now and it was then four years ago.  Copied and pasted here.

Edited by ontheball - 28 Mar 2019 at 10:39am

still loads of coverage in the media today. Main focus is on Delaney’s refusal to leave the Fai despite being requested to by the board. They all have to go and a proper external audit on the Fai back to when Delaney was treasurer to date. Expenses to all board , officers, staff and council members to be made public  and then a proper account of the actual financial situation in the association.

Discussing the upcoming hearing yesterday, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the FAI “obviously” had question to answer.

He also told RTE Radio One it was important to ensure all taxpayer money issued to the organisation had been spent correctly.

He said: “It certainly seems like there have been some unusual arrangements when it comes to the FAI’s finances and certainly the bridging loan is unusual.

“An organisation of that size and scale would have banking facilities. I would have assumed they would be able to get a loan of €100,000 if they needed to.

“So obviously questions have to be answered. The Joint Oireachtas Committee will carry out hearings later in the week.

irish_major wrote: Ewan MacKenna just tweeted that he's been through the FAI accounts and will hopefully have a piece out on it this evening (with legal now). Sounds like this could be juicy - I imagine there's smoking guns left right and centre in them accounts.