For football’s sake, show all of these execs the red card
WHEN are the Irish public going to band together and demand an end to these whopping great salaries and fancy titles given to executives of the FAI?
This narcissistic, power-crazed bunch, do nothing to earn these mind-boggling salaries, while the game itself suffers at grass roots. Local clubs have to fundraise for their equipment and dressing rooms. The referees and match officials receive zero support for their training and fitness, yet a match cannot take place without them.
And all because execs like John Delaney and his cronies, are allowed to remain in long term positions. Let’s show them all the red card and get rid of ALL of these executive posts and pay a realistic sum to someone who actually has the interest of Irish Football at heart.
Name and address supplied. AS things stand, the issues of John Delaney and his loan to his employers the FAI, and his transfer to a new job within the same organisation are all apparently out of the hands of the Public Accounts Committee.
Going back 50 years the FAI was always inefficient and meetings in Merrion Square notable for obfuscation and avoiding issues. Meanwhile, it was widely believed that while ‘The Blazers’ lived life high on the hog on overseas trips, the League of Ireland struggled. To his credit, Delaney has seen that the League of Ireland champions get €100,000 from the FAI but clubs struggle, and no one dares to question why John Delaney got such a huge salary.
Ireland will continue to whistle in the wind unless changes are made in company law to enable the investigation of activities of semi-state bodies or anyone getting Government grants
As things stand, it appears that Delaney may never explain his loan to the FAI, happy in the knowledge that in ‘Jackie Healy Rae Land’, he has super hero status. JOHN P KELLY, Clontarf, Dublin.
Wuff treatment
RECENTLY I saw a sign outside my local GP surgery stating that the waiting time for blood tests is one month.
Today I noticed a sign outside a vet’s practice that read, ‘blood tests in two hours’.
Public health medicine – for humans – has some way to go!
LESLIE O’HORA, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
A ridiculous claim
ADRIAN O’Neill, Ireland’s ambassador to the UK, claims he speaks for us when he has a rant against The Spectator.
His silly claim that the magazine is anti-Irish in the face of Brexit and is demeaning and insulting to us, is ridiculous.
Contributors, including Irish politicians, to Irish publications and TV media over the past three years is so anti-British as to be xenophobic and unacceptable.
Has Adrian not been reading the news from home? Nobody has done more damage to Irish/British relations that those living on this side of the Irish Sea. ROBERT SULLIVAN, Bantry, Co. Cork.
Call the midwife
MEGHAN’S decision to give birth at home must have set off alarm bells in the medical profession.
How many pregnant women will want to follow her example and in the process put themselves and their babies at risk? The safest place to give birth is in a hospital. Meghan’s circumstances are different from those of most women. She will have the undivided attention of medical experts to monitor her in a clinical environment.
Should anything go wrong, she will have instant access to the most modern medical facilities.
For other women, a home birth takes place in their bedroom with just a midwife present and limited equipment. Should there be complications, how quickly can they be taken to a maternity hospital?