I was not the biggest swinger in town, says ex-footballer

A former Kildare footballer who was described by the Sunday World as “the biggest swinger in town” started a defamation action against the newspaper yesterday.

Brian ‘Spike’ Nolan, aged 49, of Goatstown, Dublin, said he tried to take his own life because he was so devastated by the coverage.

He said he never organised such parties and attended four of them because his partner was bisexual and had an interest in them.