Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport
Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Tony Keohane:
Project magenta was set up at the beginning of February 2024. It was a subcommittee of the board which also involved senior executives of the organisation. We also brought on board some outside support to ensure we handled the very sensitive matters absolutely carefully and properly. I cannot comment on the investigation to which the Senator referred because it referred to earlier matters but I am really satisfied that the operation of what the Senator called project magenta was handled professionally, properly and carefully to ensure we did the best job we could possibly do under difficult circumstances, bearing in mind that we were dealing with things then which we did not know the full extent of. We wanted to make sure that we listened carefully to the people who were making the complaints, the women who were making the complaints, and that we ensured they got justice or that justice would be delivered in the end for them.
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