{"id":60801,"date":"2025-09-13T02:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60801\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T02:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:54:13","slug":"fai-chief-david-courell-defends-abbotstown-redundancy-plans-and-says-heimir-hallgrimsson-will-see-out-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60801\/","title":{"rendered":"FAI chief David Courell defends Abbotstown redundancy plans and says Heimir Hallgrimsson will see out contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heimir Hallgrimsson, right, and FAI chief executive officer David Courell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f24edd0a-667b-408b-a515-88536e2a96f8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Heimir Hallgrimsson, right, and FAI chief executive officer David Courell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">FAI CEO David Courell says that an above European average spend on staff is the reason the association is set to cut the workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The FAI\u2019s most senior executive also insists that the men and women\u2019s senior national sides are very well resourced compared to other UEFA members, his way of tackling criticism around the absence of a sports psychologist in Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s camp and more serious claims around the women\u2019s set up that have been raised by ex-boss Eileen Gleeson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heimir Hallgrimsson, right, and FAI chief executive officer David Courell FAI CEO David Courell says that an above&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,2721,18,18142,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-60801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-daniel-mcdonnell","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-fai","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}