Clare Byrne

So why not increase funding for youth clubs, diversionary programs and look at it?

And you do have to take a long term view on these things.

And it has worked.

Other countries have shown that if you invest in sport, in art, in education, in trying to break the cycle of disadvantage, you'll win the battle against crime.

Yeah, and FIFA itself, because I think, you know, the consequences of this is you have arguably, I mean, it ranks alongside the Olympic Games as one of the great sporting showcases every four years.

I mean, this should be a celebration of all that's good about football.

I mean, I have a sister who lives in Florida and she has two boys.

They're both huge football fans.

They're big fans of Inter-Miami.

And the hero worship, Lionel Messi, who, of course, plays for Inter Miami.

Not a hope of a ticket.

Not a hope.

I think she was talking about $600 to $800 for one youth subsidized ticket.

That's a subsidized ticket.

And if you look at New York, New York and New Jersey are after launching a formal investigation into ticketing, into the pricing structures, into people getting different types of tickets than the ones that they thought they had paid for.

Then you have the whole hotel thing that there was a vast amount of hotels block booked by FIFA.

And they're now releasing an awful lot of those hotel rooms because there's no demand for them.

So it's very sad.

I mean, I'm a big football fan and I look at this and if you talk to Irish people, some of their greatest sporting memories might be.

Oh, Italian 90.