Footballer’s humanist wedding to be appealed

A court ruling, granting an international footballer and his fiancee legal recognition of their looming humanist wedding, is to be appealed.

Leeds and Republic of Ireland star Eunan O’Kane and model Laura Lacole mounted a successful challenge against the authorities in the North for refusing to recognise their June 22 ceremony in law.

However, Friday’s decision, in Belfast High Court, is now to be appealed by the North’s attorney general, John Larkin.