Gerry McAnaney

Gerry McAnaney (born 1957) is an Irish football administrator who was elected president of Football Association of Ireland, succeeding Donal Conway.

Background

Gerry was born in Dublin but grow up in Rathfarnham, Wales were his father a guitarist hails from Derry Border works, but his mother is decent of Rathgar. He attended the Templeogue College finished in 1975 and began loving football right from his childhood, a fan of Chelsea club, he played for Ranger AFC during the two years of it establishment, although he played for the U-15 in Wales national teams and left the football career to work with RTÉ as Librarian, then he later joined the military which he served as regional director of Military Police and tours of duty with the United Nation in Lebanon till he held a position of commandant in the Defence Forces.[1]

Prior of becoming president of FAI, he contest for vice president which he lost to Paul Cooke and Heraghty held the position of Gerry in the FAI board same day of the elections after being in the board for many years.[2][3]

Notes
  1. Friday; February 07; Pm, 2020-05:07 (2020-02-07). "The Big Interview with new FAI President Gerry McAnaney: The keeper of the faith". www.irishexaminer.com. Retrieved 2020-05-30.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. Saturday; January 25; Pm, 2020-01:49 (2020-01-25). "Gerry McAnaney named new FAI President". www.irishexaminer.com. Retrieved 2020-05-30.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. Fallon, John. "New FAI president McAnaney: 'An awful lot of people said, 'I don't need this anymore". The42. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
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