Daniel McConnell

You have to presume there's three, four years worth of preparation going into a kind of a move like that.

And was it ever viable that you might have used a second ground in Ireland?

Was there ever even a possibility that another ground was on?

using Crow Park only or was it only ever going to be the Aviva Stadium?

Is there any concern about, say, the capacity of the transport, the congestion in Dublin?

David Crill, thank you very much for joining us on the Business Post podcast.

Absolute pleasure.

Thank you very much.

Okay, welcome back.

Peter, as I said, you were the one listening.

What was your first and overall assessment of David Carell as an interviewee?

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.