Daniel McConnell

That struck out to me, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I asked questions in a particular way to see would he take the bait in terms of giving Delaney and those who were there a kicking and he didn't.

And I thought, I was quite revealing in its own right that this is a good guy.

He probably said, I probably don't have time or the inclination to go kicking people who were gone.

But what he did say, hang on, this is the deck of cards I've been dealt with.

I'll do the best I can with it.

I think he's got willing stakeholders in the FAI, UEFA, sorry, in the government, UEFA and FIFA and the bank to give them that bit of leeway because they probably all see the social benefit of letting the game grow.

There's no point having an FAI if it's Moribund and can't do anything.

But I found it fascinating also as well that he's setting out his ambition for Euro 2028.

I mean, that to me sounds like a real opportunity.

Even if we don't qualify through the front door, he seems to think there's a back door.

And for us to have three games at home with home advantage, I mean, the country will...

And I think I alluded to at the start of the interview.

Look, I mean, again, having been in that room that day, I mean, the hurt around the chaos that went on.

Yeah.

was palpable not only in the like from the politicians but from across the media and then obviously the public at large I mean there was a genuine sense that we've had the wool pulled over our eyes or that you know that things were going on that they shouldn't have been going on and we used to read and again give credit to Mark Ty and Paul Rowan who did brilliant work on this you know they'd like to bring all of this to light it was fantastic and

And you just want to say, can you not put professionals in there?

But I have ringing in my head, and I didn't say it to him, but back to Saipan, those apres match sketches where there were dishevelled lads joking that we're the most organised football association in the entirety of Merion Square.

You know, it just goes that there's a long road for the FAI to go on.

Absolutely.