Daniel McConnell

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David Crell, you're very welcome to the Business Post podcast.

Thank you very much.

It's a pleasure to be here.

My first question is an easy one.

We won't go for the juggler just yet.

What in God's name were you doing getting involved with the FAI, given everything that has gone on before?

Was there any hesitation given?

Because, I mean, it's not just the John Delaney era, which, you know, engulfed the FAI in terms of that feeling that it was a bit of an amateuristic type organisation.

I mean, we've heard for decades of the...

I won't say rinky-dink, but we've heard of its inadequacies, I suppose, in terms of its professionalism vis-à-vis the city, IRFU or other sporting organisations.

Were you hesitant in any way about the scale of the challenge that was confronting you going in?

To say choppy waters is probably underestimating it.

And I mean, because I speak from personal... Because I was in the committee room in Leinster House when Donald Conway and the team were in that day.

Like...

Like, I was appalled at the behaviour that day.

And I'm not going to, let's not, we're not going to trash, that's not going to be the focus of the podcast, but I do want to just, I suppose, get, like, there was a lot of, you could feel the hurt, I suppose, in the room, and you could feel the hurt, you know, on the airways, et cetera, like that.

Like, the FAO matters to people.

Football in this country matters to people.

And, you know, it's just that that trust was broken.