Shortly after Martin O’Neill was appointed as the manager of the Ireland football team in November 2013, Frank Fitzgibbon, the editor of The Sunday Times in Ireland, was at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin when he bumped into the former Celtic boss.  Fitzgibbon had heard reports that the FAI was annoyed with Paul Rowan, the newspaper’s football correspondent who had been asking awkward questions at a press conference earlier that day.  Fitzgibbon decided to introduce himself to O’Neill in an attempt to build bridges with the football association via its new manager. O’Neill was having none of it, and instead…

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