This week’s guests on Behind the Lines are Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan.
Mark and Paul have built on their award-winning series of stories for the Sunday Times by writing a book, titled Champagne Football: John Delaney and the betrayal of Irish Football.
This week they join us for a chat to explain how their initial stories came to light - which included a dramatic late-night sitting at the Four Courts - and they reflect on those extraordinary weeks in 2019, from Delaney’s becoming Executive Vice-President in Gibraltar, and the tennis ball protests at the Aviva Stadium, to that remarkable appearance before the Oireachtas Sport Committee.
We also reflect on deeper questions about an extraordinary tale. How did Delaney become untouchable at the FAI? What exactly motivated Delaney? Was it greed, ego, or did he just want to do right by his father?
And, above all, what the hell was the John the Baptist documentary all about?
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