The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
How do you deal with conflict and how do you mind yourself?
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Because, again, it's a question we tend to ask the business leaders who come into the studio.
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
I'm always interested to hear how you deal with really difficult circumstances and how more often how do you mind yourself?
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
So let's start, I suppose, if we can, about your working day.
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Are you an early starter, late riser, or how do you manage your day?
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Yeah.
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Can you delegate any of that stuff to your deputies?
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
And I'm always interested in that balance between say people who
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
I won't say micromanage is the wrong word, but tend to be, like to be in the weeds on certain things.
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
But then those, I suppose, leaving your top team enough space to do their job effectively.
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
And I'm not long as an editor, so I struggle with, not struggle with, but this is a kind of a question I ask myself all the time.
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
How much do I need to be in the weeds of things and how much do I let my top team do their stuff as well?
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Talk to me about where you find yourself on that spectrum of
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
having to be on top of stuff and then also letting your team do their job?
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
David, you've mentioned there about Ireland hosting or part hosting Euro 2028 and the opportunity that it presents itself.
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
From a business perspective, how big of an opportunity is it?
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Are there any major infrastructure?
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Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Because I know when, say, either Croke Park or the Viva Stadium have had to do big, say, UEFA games, there is an extra level of, I suppose, preparation or even infrastructure needed in terms of hosting foreign media and television.
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Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
Are we good to go on that front?
The Business Post Podcast
Ep 13: David Courell, FAI chief executive - The Business Post Podcast with Daniel McConnell and Peter O'Dwyer
And I presume that's not something as an association you do overnight.