Daniel McConnell

Is there a roadmap to help those clubs get a permanent home, or is that still a way off?

Talk to me about the finances of the organisation and where you stand now, because I think one of the most iconic moments of that controversy was the idea of a chief executive cutting a cheque for 100,000 euro.

Hopefully you're not in the position of having to do that yourself now, are you?

I wish I had the personal cash flow to be able to do that, but no, I'm not.

And tickling again was one of the issues that came to the fore.

Back in the 90s, I think Joe Delaney, I think there was controversy around that in US 94 and then it has come the tickling system when the Aviva Stadium opened.

Talk to me about that.

How stands that whole approach to say corporate premium level selling and then also your season tickets?

Because as you say, it's 30,000 season tickets.

I mean, there's not many general tickets left if you're doing that.

How much is that now?

And I presume occasions like a Troy-powered hat-trick in Hungary do great wonders.

I mean, have you seen a natural uplift in interest even since that match?

And that's a very stable revenue system.

So just back to the money aspect, I mean, obviously on a much more stable footing than it was.

I mean, given this probably vicissitudes and ups and downs in terms of your cash flow, I mean, how do you then manage the numbers to a degree that you're not getting to a point where you're even into an overdraft or you're burning through an overdraft that you're getting into a position like that?

I mean, to what extent on that scale have you managed to stabilize things?

Well, I want to talk about the transformation because we in the Business Post have undergone two or three years of major transformation here.

We've turned what was a sleeping Sunday newspaper into, you know, an always on digital first operation and that, you know, turning a tanker while it's still moving can be very tricky.

Talk to me about going in and doing all of that, that change.