Leo Varadkar, then Minister for Sport, and the FAI’s John Delaney at the National Sports Centre in 2013
Leo Varadkar said he doesn’t think anybody would be satisfied by Mr Delaney’s refusal to answer questions about corporate governance at the FAI during his tenure as chief executive.
….Mr Varadkar said Mr Delaney was not a public servant and therefore was not accountable to the Oireachtas Committee on Sport.
But he said Mr Delaney and the FAI were accountable to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement and to Sport Ireland, and those bodies still had questions which had to be answered.
Taoiseach criticises Delaney appearance at Oireachtas Committee (RTÉ)
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I know that people don’t resign in Ireland but surely delaney won’t be able to remain in place at the fai.
Play the poll, not the fan… is it.
They’ll just rebrand
Soccer Ireland
Or something like that
And knock seven shades of ….. rhymes with hit
Out’ve their finance dept
Don’t be fooled lads
They are a cash machine
And it suited a lazy and easily influenced board to have a careless and sloppy incompetent accounts dept
Then what’s the actual fing point of getting him in to question him
If nothing else comes of it then at least he has been exposed to the general public for the arrogant d1ckhead that he is.
Wait till there’s accountability in GAA. Another gravy train.The mother of all gravy trains surely.
There is
Everything goes back down to the Club’s
There is no one person running the GAA
And you see won’t League Teams
At any division
Getting changed on the side of the road
The top of the GAA Pyramid is the Club
And always will be
If it helps :
Club
–Regional/ Amalgamation – this happens in rural areas where clubs are typically Junior – they join up to compete a Senior Club level.
County Board
Provincial Board
National – Ard Craomh
Congress
With the exception of Congress
All the other tiers are decision making entities on their own. With their own facilities, resources, boards, and indeed audited accounts.
Croke Park itself is a separate operation, whilst housing in some part the admin of the association at National level. It’s commercial lettings and other corporate activities for profit report back and are answerable to Ard Craomh CLG; on behalf of all members.
Congress is a show. A giant AGM and bigger that all the Ard Fheiseanna put together
But consider it the Gathering of the Clans
Manners, Rule Changes, Elections, accounts of the National CLG entity, Strategy, Training and Development updates, Players Compo Fund annual report, national Marketing and Sponsorship updates etc
These all get aired, sorted and voted on for another year.
It is here at Congress that the infamous Rule 42 gets thrown in and kicked around
Don’t ever
Confuse
The GAA and the FAI
Our Stadium and Club Grounds infrastructure
Our attendances
a Club First ethos across all levels of participation
Have you ever wondered why you don’t see a lot of player transfer carry-on in the GAA