Stalwart Brian Kerr may be added to Ireland interim ticket
Brian Kerr’s 19-year absence from the FAI could be over if rumours about his involvement in the interim Irish set-up are accurate.
Since his nine-year stint as victorious double Euro youth winner, technical director and senior manager was curtailed by John Delaney, the popular veteran has worked for his beloved St Patrick’s Athletic, Faroe Islands and most prominently as a media pundit.
Niall Quinn spoke of reintegrating ‘the Greener’ in the period after Delaney’s demise but the 70-year-old received no formal invite to accept a role.
That could now change ahead of John O’Shea holding a press conference on Friday afternoon at the Aviva Stadium.
He and his assistant in the temporary arrangement, Paddy McCarthy, both represented Ireland under Kerr and he could be elevated to the set-up as an advisor for the home double-header friendly against Belgium and Switzerland on March 23 and 26.
O’Shea’s experience is limited to assistant posts and that’s understood to have swayed the FAI hierarchy against sacking Stephen Kenny in September and installing his number three as caretaker to see out the doomed campaign.
Kerr, who remains close to one of the FAI’s headhunting trio for the senior boss, Packie Bonner, last week told Virgin Media’s viewers that his former player and number one target Lee Carsley would be remaining with England’s U21 squad, out of a sense of loyalty.
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