Richie Sadlier had his football dreams smashed just as they were all coming true. In a revealing interview coming up to the tenth anniversary of his retirement from the game, he recalls his journey from the light into the dark and back again

A Bank of Ireland manager who stole over €3m from his employers in a “ponzi scheme” has been jailed for four and a half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

IRISH soccer was last night celebrating a landmark decision by FIFA which bolsters the coffers of struggling junior and schoolboy clubs which nurture the game’s stars of the future.

Brian Kerr has named a squad of 22 players for the first qualifying phase of the European 2003 Under-17 Championships in Cork from October 21 to October 25, 2002.