AN AMERICAN left a fortune in her will to set up a public library in Ireland in memory of a Kerry teacher almost 40 years ago, State files reveal.

An American left a fortune in her will to set up a public library in Ireland in memory of a Kerry teacher almost 40 years ago, State files reveal.

SHAREHOLDERS in electronic payments firm Payzone yesterday voted to remove chief executive John Nagle and finance director John Williamson from their positions.

UP TO 60% of shareholders in Payzone — the Anglo-Irish electronics payment solutions firm — have called for the firm’s board of directors to hold an extraordinary general meeting to approve the removal of the chief executive and chief financial officer, John Nagle and John Williamson.

A HIGH COURT judge will give her decision tomorrow on an application by two Payzone executives restraining the company from treating them as being dismissed.

THE chief executive and chief financial officer of electronic payments firm Payzone secured a High Court injunction last night preventing their removal from the company.

THE man on trial for murdering his friend by stabbing him repeatedly in the neck threatened fellow school children with knives and scissors at the age of 11, it emerged yesterday.

IT WAS very much a private function last night as Roy Keane’s Sunderland were belatedly presented with the Football League Championship trophy.

The Football League have dismissed Roy Keane’s complaints about Sunderland not being presented with the Coca-Cola Championship trophy at Kenilworth Road yesterday.

LEEDS chairman Ken Bates confirmed his reputation as football’s wheeler-dealer supreme yesterday by putting the club into administration and immediately forming a new company to buy it back again.

WEMBLEY officials are adamant the new £757m stadium will be the ‘greatest in the world’ - when it is eventually opened.

THE financial services and payments group, Fexco, based in Killorgin, Co Kerry, made pre-tax profits of €13.6 million in 2004.

ELECTRONIC payments group Alphyra is on course to refloat on the stock exchange after profits grew by almost 80% last year.

The Football Association will volunteer to be the guinea pigs for new goal-line technology when the game’s rule-makers meet this weekend.

FEXCO, the Killorglin-based global payments company, has commenced the expansion of its Australian business by acquiring a Melbourne-based residential property management company.

ENGLAND’S soccer authorities are looking at the possibility of using sin bins to punish players.

Preston’s Carling Cup first-round clash at Mansfield tonight has been postponed amid safety fears.

Alphyra has bought mobile payments software firm Itsmobile for an undisclosed sum.

Alphyra, Europe’s largest independent payment network, has acquired the Irish mobile payments software firm Itsmobile, it was announced today.

The Football League are “encouraged” after the season kicked off with the highest opening weekend attendances since the 1965-66 season.

West Ham could be in hot water with the Football Association after the Football League confirmed that assistant referee Trevor Massey was hit by coins thrown from the Hammers end at the Millennium Stadium in Saturday’s Division One play-off final.

English football’s financial reality could lead to a money-free transfer deadline day today.

ATTEMPTS by Alphyra, the electronic payments firm taken private by management last year, to acquire British company PayPoint have run into trouble.

The Nationwide Football League have failed in a bid to get the Barclaycard Premiership to abandon the transfer window system.

EVEN before Alex Ferguson and Gerard Houllier walk out at the Millennium Stadium tomorrow they have done the Worthington Cup a huge service.

PAYMENTS software company Euronet Worldwide is to make a bid for Alphyra, currently the subject of a proposed management buyout (MBO).

The Alphyra management group which is buying out Alphyra has extended its offer until February 19.

The Professional Footballers’ Association are urging football clubs not to break players’ contracts by trying to enforce pay cuts on them.

The Football League today welcomed the decision to award the three digital television licences made available by the collapse of ITV Digital to the BBC and Sky, but will still have to fight in the courts for the money owed to the 72 Nationwide clubs.

Celtic and Rangers were told today that a seismic shift in the balance of power in English football would be needed to revive their fading hopes of joining Division One.

Nationwide League clubs have only themselves to blame for the impending cash crisis after failing to accept a reduced settlement from troubled broadcaster ITV Digital, according to a media expert.

Alphyra has announced that its subsidiary in Germany [alphrya deutschland gmbh] has secured a contract to deliver top-up services for one of the leading two mobile phone operators in the country.

The Football League today branded the sale of ITV Digital as irrelevant to their campaign to recover the £178. 5million the station owes to cash-strapped clubs.

Football League chiefs will tonight lobby MP's for their support in the ITV Digital crisis.

The Nationwide League insist they would be willing to listen to the Old Firm clubs if they made an approach to join the English set-up.

The true extent of ITV Digital’s shaky finances could be revealed today when the Football League ask the High Court to release confidential documents withheld when the debt-laden broadcaster went into administration.

ITV Digital was allowed to launch its coverage of Nationwide Football League matches without a written guarantee that it would pay up in full sums owed to clubs should the venture fail.

A feng shui expert took a tour of a sport’s stadium’s unlucky changing room today in a bid to chase away its inexplicable jinx.

Cardiff owner Sam Hammam has promised to give up his controversial walk around the Ninian Park pitch.

Alphyra has announced that it has entered into a conditional agreement to sell the businesses of its Voice and Data Group, with the exception of the payphones business, for a total consideration of €12m.

The Football League are in talks about Celtic and Rangers competing in next season's Worthington Cup.