Basketball points finger at girls with dangerous nails

Underage basketball chiefs are facing a new injury issue in the girls’ game — from long finger nails.

One of the country’s largest ladies boards, in Cork, says it has received “further complaints” about young players with long nails — both real and artificial — causing harm to other players on the court.

The board has already forwarded regulations from Europe’s governing body, FIBA, to clubs which allow referees to stop players with “excessively long nails playing in games”.