Soccer-Irish governing body's state funding suspended

Ireland's state-funded sport coordination body suspended future funding to the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) on Tuesday over what it said was the soccer body's acknowledgement that it failed to comply with its grant approval terms.

Sport Ireland, which has been demanding answers from the FAI over a 100,000 euro ($112,770) short-term loan provided to it by former chief executive John Delaney, said the acknowledgement was made in a written statement the FAI was due to deliver to a parliamentary committee on Wednesday.

Delaney, who moved to a new role of executive vice-president at the FAI shortly after details of the loan were first reported, is due to appear before the parliamentary committee to answer questions over the 2017 loan that the FAI said was needed due to short-term cash flow issues. ($1 = 0.8868 euros) (Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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