JACK CHARLTON looks down on the immaculate, sun-splashed pitch of the Aviva Stadium from the lofty perch of the FAI suite and allows his mind to wander back 24 years to the same place but a very different venue.

Former Republic of Ireland manager Jack Charlton is recovering today after being taken to hospital after collapsing during a family holiday in Spain.

“Faugh-A-Ballagh”

The search for three generations of a family feared drowned in the Irish Sea was today concentrating on an oil slick four miles off the Northern Ireland coast.