The FAI voted Giles as the greatest Republic of Ireland player of the last 50 years at the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004.

In 2009 former Bohemians player, Stephen Henderson took over as boss at the Club and in his first season, the Blues narrowly missed out yet again for the playoffs and reached the League Cup Final and the FAI Cup semi finals.

They won the FAI Cup in 1990 beating St. Francis 3-0 in the first Lansdowne Road final with John Ryan ( footballer ) becoming only the second player to score a hat trick in a FAI Cup final.

The board was established on 6 December 1882 when representatives from the Scottish Football Association ( SFA ), the Football Association of Wales ( FAW ) and the Irish Football Association ( IFA ) ( now the governing body in Northern Ireland and not to be confused with the Football Association of Ireland ( FAI ) the governing body in the Republic of Ireland ) were invited to attend a meeting in Manchester by the FA ; previously games between teams from different countries had to agree to which country's rules were used before playing.

Born in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, Lindsay joined the Anfield club in the March 1969 for £ 67, 000 from his hometown club Bury, His debut was a night to remember, The Reds were playing host to FAI side Dundalk in a European Fairs Cup 1st round 1st leg tie, the Irish side were ' like lambs to the slaughter ,' and it took just 1 minute for the flood gates to open through a goal from youngster Alun Evans, free scoring full-back Chris Lawler made it 2 in the 10th and it was 3-0 by the 24th minute when the man nicknamed Anfield Iron, Tommy Smith, scored, before the referee could sound the half-time whistle and give the Dundalk team a rest Liverpool found net 2 more times with goals from Bobby Graham and a 2nd from Evans scoring in the 36th and 38th minutes respectively.

* Soccer: In December 2005 the town's soccer team, Drogheda United, won the FAI Cup for the first time.

More common names include: UAV, drone, remotely piloted vehicle ( RPV ), remotely piloted aircraft ( RPA ), remotely operated aircraft ( ROA ), and for those " limited-size " ( as defined by the FAI ) unmanned aircraft flown in the USA's National Airspace System, flown solely for recreation and sport purposes such as models and radio control ( R / Cs ), which are generally flown under the voluntary safety standards of the Academy of Model Aeronautics, the United States ' national aeromodeling organization.

F1D models require a large space, such as a sports hall, aircraft or dirigible hangar, with the famous atrium of the West Baden Springs Hotel having been previously used for indoor free flight competitions in the United States, and there is even a salt mine in Romania underground that has hosted the FAI world F1D championships several times.

* Fairbanks International Airport ( IATA code ' FAI '), a public airport near the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, United States

Westport United won the FAI Junior Cup in 2005 in front of 2, 000 supporters in Kilkenny and play their home matches in the Sports Park ; matches are advertised on the local press.

United finished in sixth position in the League in 1985 and, under the stewardship of Tom Lally and Tony Mannion, qualified for the FAI Cup final.

In the FAI Cup, United again reached the final, this time held in Lansdowne Road.

With five minutes to go on the clock, Johnny Glynn tapped home a late goal, which was enough to win Galway United the FAI Cup and also send them back into Europe.

The National Aeronautic Association of the United States ( NAA ) is a non-profit 501 ( c )( 3 ) organization and a founding member of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ( FAI ).

As the U. S. representative to FAI, the National Aeronautic Association is the sole authority for overseeing and certifying all aviation records that take place within the United States.

Within the United States and its Territories, the NAA has the sole responsibility of administering awards established by the FAI.

They followed this by winning a record six FAI Cups in succession in the 1960s, when they were also one of the European club teams that spent the summer of 1967 in the United States, founding the United Soccer Association.

The Saints won the 2011 Leinster Senior Cup after beating Dublin rivals Bohemians 2-0 at Dalymount Park. The Saints bid to end their 50 year drought of winning the FAI Cup came to a heartbreaking end, after knocking Crumlin United, Waterford United and Cork City out, the Saints faced old rivals Shelbourne in the semi-final.

Despite being defeated Waterford United still stood a chance of remaining a Premier Division side due to the FAI assessment.

However on 8 December 2006 the FAI decided to relegate Waterford to the 1st Division with Shamrock Rovers and Galway United replacing them and the now defunct Dublin City.

In 1950 / 51 Wanderers won the FAI Junior Cup, defeating Drogheda United 2-1.

Kildare County were advised by the FAI to apply for a First Division licence despite suffering defeat to Mervue United and their subsequent relegation to the A league.

Limerick lost FAI Cup finals in 1965 and again in 1966 to Shamrock Rovers before they finally captured the title in 1971, beating Drogheda United 3-0 in a replay.

The club had changed its name to Limerick United in 1977 and won a League of Ireland Championship and FAI Cup under this name.

However Rovers loosened their grip on the FAI Cup losing 3-1 at hoe to Monaghan United F. C.

Their first competitive game was on the 26th of August losing to Drogheda United 2-1 in the FAI League Cup.

At National Level Fanad United has also enjoyed considerable in both the FAI Senior Cup and the League cup.

The current distance and duration record recognised by the FAI was achieved on 23 April 1988 from Heraklion on Crete to Santorini in a MIT Daedalus 88 piloted by Kanellos Kanellopoulos: a straight distance of in 3 hours, 54 minutes.

According to the Guinness book of records, Eugene Andreev ( USSR ) holds the official FAI record for the longest free-fall parachute jump ( without drogue chute ) after falling for 80, 380 ft ( 24, 500 m ) from an altitude of 83, 523 ft ( 25, 457 m ) near the city of Saratov, Russia on 1 November 1962.

The requirements for FAI to be effective, both internally, to protect humanity against unintended consequence of the AI in question and externally to protect against other non-FAIs arising from whatever source are:

During the Spanish Civil War of 1936 – 1939, although the anarchists and Marxists both fought in a united front against the fascist movement of General Francisco Franco, the revolutionary Marxists of the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ), the anarcho-syndicalists of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo ( CNT ), and the anarchists of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica ( FAI ) faced repression and attacks from the Communist party.

In 1923, at a time when the home nations had withdrawn from FIFA, the FAI was recognised by FIFA as the governing body of the Irish Free State on the condition that it changed its name to the Football Association of the Irish Free State.

After complaints from the FAI, FIFA intervened and restricted players ' eligibility based on the political border.

Komarov Diploma from the FAI ( Federation Aeronautique Internationale ) ( 1998, 2000 ), Inductee, Astronaut Hall of Fame ( 2007 ), Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas, ( 2007 ), Distinguished Alumni Award, UC Santa Cruz, 1991.

In recognition of this achievement, she received the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Reagan ( 1986 ), the Harmon Trophy, the FAI De la Vaulx Medal, and is the first woman to have received the Collier Trophy.

The 10th FAI Paragliding World Championships were held at the site in 2007, attended by 150 pilots from 41 nations.

Part of the story of the founding of aviation sports ' international governing body, the FAI, originated from an IOC meeting in Brussels, Belgium on June 10th, 1905.

The FAI initially did not recognize the achievement because he did not land in his Vostok spacecraft ( he ejected from it ), but later it recognized that Gagarin was the first human to fly into space.

In the row that followed, Shels resigned from the League and were then suspended from football for a year by the FAI.

The decade had a happy ending though as success in the FAI Cup finally arrived ( many fans had started to believe the club was suffering from a curse ).

Cork Hibs beat Shels in the replay of the 1973 FAI Cup Final in Flower Lodge-the only time the final was ever played outside Dublin while Shelbourne were eliminted from the UEFA Cup by Hungarians Vasas SC in what would be their last European game for 21 years.

Shels lost the League Cup Final to Sligo Rovers, the FAI Cup Final to Cork City after a replay, and worst of all, missed out on the league title on the last day of the season, they were also narrowly eliminated from the UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup by Kilmarnock.

Shels withdrew from the 2007 Setanta Sports Cup and before the start of the new league season were demoted to the First Division by the FAI.

Liptovský Mikuláš hosted the 2012 FAI World Championship for Space Models, taking place from 31 August to 9 September.