Meet the man who put Stephanie Roche in the picture

John Flood could have been at the Fifa Ballon d’Or gala in Zurich last night rubbing shoulders with the great and the good of world football.

Instead he was hard at work in his Centra shop in Ramsgrange, New Ross, planning his St Valentine’s Day promotions.

“I did get an invite to go to the awards,” the former Wexford Youths Women’s boss explained, “but I didn’t get into football to be wearing tuxedos and that stuff. There were a lot more people deserving to be going than me. People like Stephanie Roche and her family.”