FAI...New Manager is Heimir Hallgrimsson

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Looking very dodgy at back and 1 down after 19 mins.

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With 15 to go have come from 1 behind to go 2-1 up. Some header by Noonan. The Uzebeks are a noisy lot.

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https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2025/1108/1542874-fai-to-bring-motion-to-ban-israel-from-euro-competition/

The FAI has voted to submit a motion to UEFA to ban Israel from its European club and international competitions.

The vote - proposed by Bohemians - was put to the FAI's General Assembly at an EGM this afternoon, which was held directly before the AGM in Blanchardstown in Dublin.

The proposal for the vote cited two alleged violations of UEFA statutes by the Israel Football Association (IFA): organising clubs in occupied Palestinian territories without the consent of the Palestinian FA; and the alleged failure of the IFA to enforce an effective anti-racism policy.

The motion required support from 50% of FAI delegates to pass. It passed by a majority, with 74 votes in favour, seven against and two abstentions.

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https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2025/1108/1542910-fai-says-its-now-looking-to-be-debt-free-by-2036/

The FAI has "rephased" its debt after reaching an agreement with its three main lenders to extend the timeframe for repayments.

Last year the association said it was aiming to be debt free by 2031. However after Saturday's AGM, chief executive David Courell and president Paul Cooke revealed that target has been revised.

With a windfall coming in 2028 when Ireland will be co-hosts of the Euros, the FAI say they are now looking to have debts (which currently stand at €38m) cleared by 2036.

"We have rephased our debt, which is a good thing, not a bad thing," said Courell.

"We, traditionally, have three primary lenders – UEFA, FIFA and the Bank of Ireland being the biggest one.

"In the last three years our debt repayments have been in the region of €3.9m plus serving of debt on top of that of €1.5m, give or take.

"By virtue of this negotiation we will see the repayment to Bank of Ireland reduce from €3.9m to €1.5m over the next three years. We will catch up some of that lost ground in 2028 when we have the additional hosting revenue."

Asked if he was confident they'd debt free in 11 years' time, Cooke responded: "We're not fixated on it. We view the debt as a necessary part of running an organisation. Obviously our debt is very high and we want to bring it down. Debt is part of a business.

"The aim, the intention at this time, is to be debt free by 2036, but that could move."

Courell added: "It's not unnatural for an association to carry some debt, the volume of what we've been carrying in recent years is what's wrong but as you progress and the numbers get down to single figures, there's nothing wrong with carrying a bit of debt."

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10 man Cork City were trying to hang on with wave after wave of Shamrock Rovers attacks in FAI Cup Final. But Rovers just score in 66th minute.

More smoke than a bog fire in this game.

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https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2025/1110/1543157-quinn-hallgrimsson-needs-to-put-his-stamp-on-ireland/

There was so much in there, I couldn't understand why he (Traynor) hadn't been more popular. Everyone knows Michael Collins, for instance, and his story. Why did this guy (Traynor) fall between the cracks?

"The answer in the thesis was, he didn't die young. He was a soccer man, not a GAA man. He would have taken on the Church, particularly over the Yugoslavian game in '55 when they tried to cancel and he fought and got the game to go ahead.

"He was such a steadfast defender of the game. He would point out to everybody that there were volunteers in 1916 that played football. The whole world thinks it was fellas with hurleys. It wasn't, there was a football theme to many of the battalions.