The former WNT assistant claims Marc Canham broke a verbal agreement in relieving him of his duties, and that CEO David Courell wrongly believed Healy walked away from the role.
FORMER WOMEN’S NATIONAL team assistant coach Colin Healy has hit out at the FAI over what he believes is a lack of “transparency and compassion” in the manner of his recent exit from the organisation.
In a lengthy statement – published two hours prior to Canham facing the media as part of the unveiling event with Gleeson’s successor, Carla Ward – Healy explained the circumstances of his departure from the FAI last month. Advertisement Healy says Canham was aware of the Cobh Ramblers job offer. Healy describes the Cobh job as an opportunity at a “progressive club” which would allow him combine his coaching career with his duties as a single father to his two young children, close to his Cork home. Healy’s wife Kelly passed away last year.
“I am not naive and have been in football a very long time – coaches lose their jobs, which is just the harsh reality of sport. But there is a way to behave and a way to treat people. I feel the treatment I received lacked transparency and compassion, and that there was a total disregard shown toward my welfare as an employee – a reality that now sees me out of work, and affects my ability to provide for my children.
“But rather surprisingly, David also expressed genuine sorrow that it had been communicated to him that I had made the decision not to continue, whilst also being very clear that the FAI would have welcomed an opportunity for me to continue my work with them. By reply I informed David that it was not my decision to leave and that I was, in fact, let go.
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