The Sky is not about to fall in on the Irish footballing world

THE prospect of having to pay to watch our national football team play its home games for the next four years has been exercising the public mind not the newly published Ansbacher report.

After all the hype, the eventual publication of the Ansbacher report evoked little more than a collective shrug of the national shoulders.

Somehow, the fact that so many of the great and the good of Irish society have been engaging in fraud and tax avoidance schemes over many years failed to take any of us by surprise. A decade of tribunals, ministerial resignations and Church-related scandals has sapped faith in traditional authority figures to the extent that these sorts of revelations are greeted now with just a jaded cynicism.