Eoin McDevitt

What it says is, in response to the high volume of media queries related to the topic of our upcoming UEFA Nations League fixtures versus Israel, the FAI can confirm that the board of the FAI continue to meet to discuss the operational aspects of hosting the home fixture alongside ongoing discussions with UEFA.

The FAI will not be releasing a statement on any decision on this matter until after the board meeting scheduled for June 11th due to the hugely significant game taking place on Tuesday for our Ireland women's national team where a victory against France will secure direct qualification for a second successive FIFA Women's World Cup which will be a landmark moment for the team and Irish sport.

The association reiterates that it is the responsibility of the board of the FAI to protect the future interests of football in Ireland.

Any decision around the game is solely a matter for the association.

Gavin Cooney is in France for that Irish women's game tomorrow night.

The shot at automatic World Cup qualification after an extraordinary win against the Netherlands in Cork on Friday.

Gavin obviously has been overtaken by events today.

How are you getting on?

Knights of Irish football tomorrow okay can you explain how that went down today then how this story started gathering legs

talk about this because it is such a big development in this story that's going to keep going on regardless of what happens on june 11th regardless of the announcement but just the wording of that statement was interesting that last paragraph saying any decision around the game is solely a matter for the association so you know the first thing i heard i thought when this was reported that this decision was going to be made was is it purely an fai decision is it government backed

How does that all work?

But the FAI are saying clearly here that they're making their own decisions on this matter.

The front pages as well.

Yeah, it's going to be on all the pages, Gavin.

What line are we looking at here now?

There's no denial.

There's nothing close to a denial of the reports in that FAI statement.

They don't confirm or deny that the decision has been made and that the decision is going to be that it will be moved.

Do you feel that that is the case now that we're just waiting for this to be rubber stamped after that board meeting?

Is it not a very significant step, though, by the FAI if they do confirm that they're not going to play this game in Dublin?