Farewell, then, summer football, the latest in the long line of saviours of Irish football. Unlike previous saviours, summer football never even got a chance to try and ultimately fail to be the messiah. Summer football was part of the FAI’s Football Pathways Plan published in February 2024. Among the plan’s guiding principles was the promise that it would be “a strategy, plan and actions that are true to our Irish DNA”. In terms of everyone falling out over it, the plan could be said to have fulfilled one of its objectives almost immediately. “We need to change how we…

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