{"id":83845,"date":"2025-09-25T01:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/83845\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T01:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:13:10","slug":"fai-accused-of-hiding-behind-legal-advice-after-refusal-to-answer-questions-from-tds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/83845\/","title":{"rendered":"FAI accused of \u2018hiding behind legal advice\u2019 after refusal to answer questions from TDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People &amp; Culture director Aoife Rafferty (left) and FAI president Paul Cooke arrive at Leinster House, for an appearance before the Sports Committee on the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) safeguarding procedures. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IRISH FAI  (2).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)\">People &amp; Culture director Aoife Rafferty (left) and FAI president Paul Cooke arrive at Leinster House, for an appearance before the Sports Committee on the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) safeguarding procedures. Photo: PA<\/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 chief executive David Courell has said that the association\u2019s \u201cconscience is clear\u201d about its handling of historic allegations of abuse within the women\u2019s game.<\/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)\">However, the football body faces the prospect of further trips to Government Buildings to discuss the issue after a difficult afternoon in front of an unimpressed Oireachtas Committee for Sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People &amp; Culture director Aoife Rafferty (left) and FAI president Paul Cooke arrive at Leinster House, for an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,2721,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-83845","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-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83845","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=83845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}