The disgraced John Delaney

nobody who served on the board of the fai or Council under Delaney can hide behind the I didn’t know excuse. Anyone that dealt with jd back as far as the shafting of Bernard O’Byrne knew exactly what he was at .

Edited by gufct - 29 Nov 2019 at 3:53pm

One City,One County,One Club GUFC will be back.

deise316 wrote:

Just drags the sorry mess out even further, the other reports due (forgot how many more of them exactly, Mazars and the ODCE are 2, but there's at least one or 2 more) probably won't be published either as they will probably have to go to the Gardai as either corroborating or contrasting evidence, while anyone named in the report and charged with anything by the Gardai will also have their legal teams get copies of all of them.

Something will leak somewhere (if not this report, then one of the other ones) and then persons named in report ''won't be able to get a fair trial'' if charged with anything. We'll probably end up with a tribunal, or an FAI undertaking to implement the findings of one or all of the reports (same as they implemented Genesis) and nothing much will happen other than maybe certain persons being barred from being company directors for a period.

Any good news ? Well, I don't think it is a massive stretch of the imagination to think that some persons named in the report may not not employed by the FAI any longer. Which means those persons might have to spend their own money on any legal defence, rather than the FAI's money. That's probably the only positive to come out of it that I can see.

I agree with all this. My take is the same.

We are looking at two potential outcomes:

1. One of the reports gets leaked (there's little chance now they will be made public) and any defendant will get off on the 'unfair trial/already judged in the court of public opinion' argument.

2. The reports are kept private, and if a trial ever comes to court, the 'defendant' will hire the best and most expensive legal team and no prosecution will follow.

The only positive of this whole sorry mess is that the old guard MIGHT be swept out. Wouldn't be too sure about that, but any argument about continuity is nonsense. Get rid of them all, install a totally new board and executive. There are plenty of able and talented people here and abroad who could run the FAI. You don't need any link with the past. The past is just poisonous.

The questions that still need to be answered in FAI reports as Council member suggests little has changed

https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/international-soccer/the-questions-that-still-need-to-be-answered-in-fai-reports-as-council-member-suggests-little-has-changed-38737009.html

The silence from ybig and crisc is deafening time to distance ourselves from fai until any link with the past is removed.

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What improvements has Mooney made, of his own accord?

Lenny82 wrote:

What improvements has Mooney made, of his own accord?

He unblocked me from the FAi twitter account!

ah now he invited powerful people in UEFA over to it wined and dined them to help with Euro bid

All opinions are my own and have f**k all to do with Mullingar RISSC CRISC Ticket Office or the FAI

Certain prominent Irish supporters were in attendance at his 50th. Perhaps they could provide some context...

9fingers wrote:

Lenny82 wrote:

What improvements has Mooney made, of his own accord?

He unblocked me from the FAi twitter account!

Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.

Foley not taking over as interim CEO

Total shambles Bill

Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".

Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn