Sports law experts have openly queried how any FAI legal action over the French ‘handball’ goal in the 2009 World Cup play-off would have succeeded — despite it resulting in a €5m payment from world governing body Fifa.

Eason, the books and stationary store at Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, owes its landlord €423,000 in rent arrears, the Circuit Civil Court heard yesterday.

ONE of Ireland’s foremost sports law experts admits that the GAA’s Disputes Resolution Committee (DRA) needs to weed out the growing number of frivolous claims if it is to continue to be successful.