Stephanie Roche explaining what it’s like not to be able to keep their tracksuits, changing in airport toilets
— Marie Crowe (@mariecrowe) April 4, 2017
This morning.
A press conference help by members of the Republic of Ireland senior women’s national team outlining a series of complaints against the Football Association of Ireland.
More as we get it.
Irish Women’s Team Highlight Allege Appalling Treatment By The FAI (Balls.ie)
Top pic via SIPTU
Thanks Frilly
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Jaysus. The team my little nephew plays for receive sponsorship from the local chipper and get to keep the tracksuit. That’s embarrassing.
different ball game altogether with adult women – binge eating, yo-yo weight gain, crash dieting etc, the girls here no know what I mean. The poor tracksuit lad doesn’t know what size the players are going to be from one week to the next. Fact.
Brother, that was unworthy of you. Some might take those remarks seriously.
you’re right, Sheikh. Sorry!
You are a dead on bloke! :-D
Too late. I’ve foregone my mid-afternoon snack because of you.
This is outrageous, but indicative of wider discrimination and inequality. Their demands are also very modest and basic, too.
Delaney should be long gone at this stage, but of course won’t because of the mens team’s moderate success of late.
Delaney’s on his way to a bigger and better pork barrel – the IOC. Why would he give an eff?
He surely can’t go to the IOC at this stage? That would be just completely ripping the urine.
Oh, yis.
Sure the OCI have a new president who was elected recently, who ran on a campaign of “down with this sort of thing” and she beat the acting president who was Hickey’s right hand man.
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/sarah-keane-elected-as-olympic-council-of-ireland-president-1.2970110
Very reasonable requests. Good luck to them!
They’re not asking for much. All their demands are fairly modest. I hope they get everything they’re asking for, and more.
How much is John Delaney on per year again?
€5 million plus his salary.
John Delaney should be able to help there. I know during Euro 2016 himself and Emma stayed in some hotels with “at the very least working and reliable wi-fi”
The FAI have long been an absolute disgrace. Go all the way to the distant past of the National Team, for instance, when the availability of good Hotel Room and inexpensive prostitutes (for the FAI) were a big factor in the selection of venues for ‘international Friendlies ‘. What is it about us, as a race, that we tolerate the “pork barrel” in EVERY facet of life?
Where are the inexpensive prostitutes? Asking for a friend
Latvia and Estonia :-D
They can’t even keep their tracksuits? FFS, if this is what they have to deal with, no wonder the tight-fisted hoors at the FAI think they can get away with the rest. Take them to the cleaners ladies, you deserve nothing less
Or at least take the tracksuits to the cleaners! :-D
Of course the elephant in the room is how poorly we as a nation support Irish football regardless of gender.
Delaney’s salary aside, the FAI isn’t awash with funds and relies on [REDACTED] to pay the bills for the national side’s management team.
When we spend hundreds of millions a year supporting English teams at the expense of local clubs, we can’t be surprised that Irish football hasn’t any money.
Joe, I can’t disagree with you as you speak the truth. However, I still believe that what little there is could be much better spent.
The fai must have to save every penny to pay Delaney. Friend of mine has gone there a few times recently to fix computers. Every time he’s there there’s a new i.t. guy straight off jobs bridge, with zero knowledge of computers. The computers themselves falling apart. The penny pinching at abbottstown is unbelievable appearantly
Joe, that’s so sad to hear. Even as a tiny nation, we can produce great footballers, but not without investment in this day and age
I’d say that Delaney is still wining and dining at the finest restaurants though, in spite of this.
bet your life he is
Their demands are quite small and they should receive them without argument.
There cannot be any argument with those demands – shame on the FAI that they have to demand such basic considerations.
+1
Best of luck to them.
Btw -the FAI are still renting the use of the Aviva from the IRFU, aren’t they?
No, the FAI have equal control as the IRFU in Lansdowne Road so don’t ‘rent’ it for fixtures.
Cheers, Hoop. Didn’t know the new arrangements with the new stadium.
Fairly ‘brave’ of the IRFU to get into a financial bed with the FAI!
Just waiting on the fai to release trumpet guy to silence us
Oh Jaysus, not that – I beg you.
Delaney’s salary is more than the combined salaries of the heads of the Spanish and Italian FAs. It’s more than the combined prize money of the FAI Cup winners and league champions. AND he had to be pressured into taking a roughly 25% pay cut iirc. AND he’s giving himself a raise soon. But there’s no money for a tracksuit each for the women. Neoliberalism and right wing thinking in a microcosm.
He just got another 100,000 euro on top of that
Was just going to say it would be interesting to hear from Frilly on this, but then saw that she sent it in :)
She’s very quiet of late.
Too quiet?
Who knows, but maybe she’s working on something explosive for her frill-bits.
I genuinely love how much they infuriate everyone.
Jesus! Ireland treats its women like poo again! It made international news though, so now the Gov’t will get onto the FAI to treat the ladies national team better than the under 10’s local Sunday league boys team.
Another milestone for Ireland!