Sports stars’ tax affairs just business as usual

That was some weekend for sport, no matter what game you prefer. September weekends, especially the first and third Sundays, take the sting out of theworkday routine.

Irish sport is still predominantly amateur in nature, so the coverage is not swamped by talk of enormous salaries and colossal transfer fees.

According to the BBC, UK soccer clubs in the Premier League spent some £870m (€1.18bn) on transfer fees during the transfer window.