A US basketball player, who was a leading force in the game in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s both as a coach and player, has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl he was coaching in his native South Carolina.

THE basketballers of Gleneagle Killarney contest a national cup semi-final this weekend for the first time since 1996, but nostalgia addicts must go back to the Eighties for the glory days of basketball in the Kingdom.