Irish sport should heed AFL’s commitment to education

As someone who teaches sports law and criminal law in Melbourne, but who lived and lectured in Belfast for 15 years, I followed the trial and acquittal of Paddy Jackson, Stuart Olding, Blane McIlroy and Rory Harrison with deep and obvious interest, writes Jack Anderson.

The trial did not feature at all in the Australian media — dominated as it was last week by a ball tampering incident involving the national men’s cricket team.

And yet Melbourne would be all too familiar with what happened.