Stephen Kenny

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Listen...

Obviously, I was born in Dirty, when I managed Dirty, and born at the Galvin Hospital, so he, yeah, played with Foyle Herps in the city, so, yeah, you know, he had the opportunity to play, so he goes to March to play against Germany away, good matches, he was in Tbilisi playing Georgia away, and he played against Germany at home, and some of the other games, Malta and

Or Latvia, I think.

It's all good experience and if you're asked the opportunity to play international football, sometimes you have to... Well, it's his own personal decision.

I had no influence one way or the other.

That was his own personal decision and that's what he decided to do.

The obvious answer is yes, of course, but not every player, they're unique players, we can't always be certain, but there is great talent around the country and obviously the academies give that opportunity.

If we can improve it at that level, obviously he improved the level of player in all the positions and the competition for places in all the positions.

Owen Elding was terrific last year for Sligo, absolutely terrific.

I'm sure he'll have a terrific career.

Yeah, I mean, you know, mass redundancies, the FAA, of course, and that's, you know, all the development officers who've lost their jobs, they probably, or who have sort of been encouraged to take voluntary redundancies, whatever it is, they...

you know, sometimes they've been the link in that region, whatever region in Ireland that is, the link with the School of League, the link with the various clubs, the link with the development squads, and knowing every player in the region and all of that, so you can lose all of that.

That can be a breadth of knowledge that's not easily replaced, you know, and I think relationships, not everyone has a perfect relationship with the region, but I think it's

Yeah, so there is a lot lost coordinating all of the...

There's a high number of coaches, but not coaching positions.

So some have been made available with the new, obviously, academy position.

So we'll see how that affects things.

Yeah, yeah.

And I think it is...