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Full coverage: Stephen Kenny

The FAI’s strategy no longer involves merely making it to the end of the day but the fundamental culture change required remains a work in progress

The FAI are embarked on a process of change but they continue to attract unwelcome headlines. Maybe that doesn't matter if they can get the fundamentals right.

Dion Fanning
5th Feb, 2022 - 5 min read

Cristiano Ronaldo, Stephen Kenny and the suffocating consequences of nativism

The response to Cristiano Ronaldo's first football match in Dublin since 2009 underlined how little Irish football fans usually have to get excited about and why Stephen Kenny's mission to change must be all encompassing.

Dion Fanning
13th Nov, 2021 - 4 min read

Stephen Kenny can’t solve Irish football’s problems. No Ireland manager can

Stephen Kenny has no option but to take the approach he has. He may not get the rewards for it but it is essential for the future of football in the country.

Dion Fanning
11th Sep, 2021 - 5 min read

Moral victories are part of who we are but Stephen Kenny’s Ireland now desperately need to win

There was plenty to be encouraged by in Ireland's performance against Portugal, but the mistakes that contributed to defeat must be eliminated.

Dion Fanning
4th Sep, 2021 - 5 min read

The FAI got its creditors to back off for a year or two – but the debts aren’t going anywhere

The FAI's ace card is that it represents Irish football and no lender would dare seize the home of the national football team and it would be a brave politician that allowed it to happen.

Sean Keyes
4th Sep, 2021 - 4 min read

“We were brainwashed for too long and told our players weren’t good enough”

Andy Reid was exiled under Giovanni Trapattoni. Now that he's a coach, he says there's nothing to be afraid of as he talks Trap, Brian Kerr, Stephen Kenny and Naomi Osaka.

Dion Fanning
5th Jun, 2021 - 9 min read
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