With the door still swinging closed on Marc Canham as he vacates the office of FAI Director of Football, talk in football circles has already turned to potential replacements.

If the bigwigs at boardroom level were to look within, as is likely to be the case, they may find a Mayo man who ticks many of the boxes in Michael Ring.

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The Westport man, who served as Minister for Sport, was brought up in conversation on RTÉ 2FM’s ‘Game On’ show by Shane Dawson, Ruby Walsh, and John Fallon.

“He can certainly open doors,” said Fallon, reporter with The Irish Examiner. “I know he was the one who facilitated the meeting with Pascal Donohue last year, given his Fine Gael connections.”

Ring’s links within the corridors of Dáil Éireann cannot be understated. It seems confidence in the FAI’s capacity to function from those in power is low, as evidenced by the seeming reluctance to release funds to the........

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