UEFA and the FAI said they would wait on a report from UEFA's observer in Basel before deciding on how to react to evidence that Mark Kinsella threw a plastic bottle at Switzerland's Alexander Frei.
The incident during Saturday's Euro 2004 qualifier appears to have taken place immediately after Frei had doubled Switzerland's lead and then proceeded to taunt players and officials sitting on the Irish bench with his celebrations a few metres away.
In a photograph published in yesterday's Irish Times, Kinsella, an unused substitute at the time, is shown to throw a water bottle at the Swiss striker as he runs back towards the centre of the pitch for the restart.
As of yesterday afternoon, European football's governing body insisted that it had not yet received the report of its official delegate and that no decision on what action might be required in the case could be taken until this was available, probably at some point today.
If the incident has escaped the attention of the delegate it seems unlikely that any action would follow.
A spokesman for the FAI said that it too is waiting on the report but added nobody from either the Swiss FA or UEFA had, up to this point, made them aware of any problem.
