Republic of Ireland manager Carla Ward will name her squad for their April fixtures later today.
The Girls in Green will face Greece in back-to-back games in the Nations League early next month.
The FAI’s director of football Marc Canham says he is confident that the government is “committed” to providing the funds to help League of Ireland clubs develop their academies.
Brexit has prevented young footballers from signing for UK clubs before the age of 18.
That has made developing academies a priority issue for Irish football’s governing body.
One of the sports policies included in the programme for government was to ‘explore new mechanisms for the creation of football academies with the FAI and League of Ireland’.
Canham says it’s crucial to keep the lines of communication open with the government.
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The Republic of Ireland under-21s beat Hungary 3-1 in an international friendly last night.
Mason Melia was among the goalscorers – making him the youngest Irish goalscorer in under-21 football at 17 years, six months and two days.
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England have a three-point lead at the top of Group K in World Cup qualifying after a 3-nil victory at home to Latvia.
Chelsea defender Reece James opened the scoring at Wembley to make it back-to-back wins for new manager Thomas Tuchel (pr: too-cull).
Harry Kane and Eberechi Eze also found the net for the hosts.
Tonight, Wales have the chance to become early Group J leaders in their game away to pace-setters North Macedonia.
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Northern Ireland are away to Sweden this evening in a friendly.
