Eoin Sheahan

Thanks very much for your company all evening.

What an incredible experience that was at the Emirates Stadium to watch Arsenal beat Brentford with thanks to Guinness 00.

Our superfan Mark had a great time in the company of David O'Leary and I hope he had a good time in the company of ourselves as well.

We are not done yet.

We've got more for you.

We've got our next superfan who's Maura.

She travelled over with Kathleen McNamee and Arsenal legend Louise Quinn

to watch the women's side take to the Emirates Stadium pitch.

Off the ball.

for just joining us.

We've been speaking to FAI CEO David Carell about the Israel fixtures and the conversations as well with government and the safety of fans at League of Ireland grounds.

And to continue this chat, I'm happy to say that Charlie McConnelogue, who is Minister of State with responsibility for sport and postal policy, is with us on the line.

Evening Minister, thanks for joining us.

So I want to start with the conversation around fans at League of Ireland grounds.

First of all, this has obviously been a feature of the week.

Can you give us an update as to where we're at with regards to conversations between the government and the FAI and League of Ireland and how satisfied the government currently is with the plans put in place by the FAI to ensure that further incidents like Friday do not happen again?

What sort of measures have you heard about?

What are the things that give you encouragement from the meeting today?

When it comes then to the punishment that's been handed down this week in a footballing sense from Minister Patrick O'Donovan the collective punishment that we've seen regarding the pausing of all AstroTurf investments into the League of Ireland we've seen some blowback to this from League of Ireland fans

From Micheál Martin as well today, in fairness, I mean, he said other clubs should not be penalised for what happened.