Children get celebrity presence for Christmas

REPUBLIC of Ireland football manager Steve Staunton picked up tips on how to improve the team’s performance in the European Championships during a surprise Christmas visit to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Dublin yesterday.

Children at the hospital were not shy in detailing the kind of tactics that should be used by the team, now struggling at the bottom of the group.

“Of course they tell me how to manage the team. That’s the beauty of it and I am only too glad to listen to what they have to say,” Mr Staunton said.