The recruitment of actress, Amy Huberman to inspire designs for shoes for a Co Monaghan shoe firm has coincided with a lift in fortunes of the business.

For many of the players honoured in Croke Park yesterday as ‘Stars of the 80s,’ an All-Ireland senior football medal simply eluded them, while for a few of them it was never more than a dream.

A sceptical public could be forgiven for asking why a construction group investigated by the State over worker exploitation is about to be awarded a €50 million contract by the National Roads Authority (NRA).