The effective owner of a building company has been found liable for €735,000 costs of his firm’s dismissed action over works to a bar of publican Charlie Chawke, writes Ann O'Loughlin.

CYRIL Lyons laughs that if he knew in advance what managing the Clare hurling team would be like — what replacing Ger Loughnane at a stage when it was likely the team would be entering ‘a valley period’ might entail — he might not have accepted the job.