Waterford, Ireland / WLR
May 24, 2021 | 7:04 AM
The incumbent FAI President Gerry McAnaney poses for a portrait before the FAI EGM at FAI Headquarters in Abbotstown, Dublin. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile
Paul Cooke and Tom Browne represent Waterford on new look FAI Board
The Football Association of Ireland has elected Gerry McAnaney to the role of President and Paul Cooke as Vice-President at a virtual EGM which also saw the inauguration of the new General Assembly to replace the FAI Council as the Association continues real Governance reform ahead of its Centenary.
Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile
Gerry McAnaney and Paul Cooke will now serve as President and Vice-President on two-year terms while Roy Barrett was re-elected as Chairperson by the 141 strong General Assembly delegates representing Professional Football, Amateur & Youth Football and National Bodies.
My impression of him is absolutely that he is a man of significant integrity
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Gerry McAnaney re-elected as FAI President
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The Football Association of Ireland has today written to delegates to the new General Assembly informing them of the full list of nominations for the new FAI Board to be elected and ratified at Sunday’s online Extraordinary General Meeting.
The meeting will also be asked to ratify Packie Bonner along with Roy Barrett, Catherine Guy, Liz Joyce, Robert Watt, and Gary Twohig for the six Independent Director roles.
Chairperson Roy Barrett believes Sunday’s EGM will be ‘historic’ with the inauguration of the 142-member General Assembly and the election of a new Board of the FAI to include 12 directors comprising six football and six Independent Directors for the first time.
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