OFI President Sarah Keane has confirmed that she has been approached by the FAI to apply for the association's CEO position. Keane has presided over Ireland's most successful Olympic Games with seven medals won at Paris 2024. She replaced Pat Hickey in the high-profile OFI role in February 2017, adopting an athletes-first policy that has revived the reputation of the body after the Rio Games controversy.
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"I find that people say to me what are you going to do next time and I'm like, ' OK, I have a day job and I have kids and I'm sitting on the European and World Aquatics on the central board. "It's nice for me in lots of ways that this has gone so well but I do have to say as well, I think sometimes we don't get enough credit - we have an amazing Olympic Federation staff, genuinely. "We have an absolutely outstanding group of people, and a very, very professional group of people who really, really, really are com.