Brave new world beckons for rejigged sport’s body

ONE image summed up the challenges facing the Football Association of Ireland as its delegates gathered in Galway at the weekend for what turned out to be a historic annual general meeting.

On the other side of the country, Damien Duff was pictured in his brand new top of the range Merc complete with personalised licence plate and a price tag several times the average annual industrial wage.

This is the same Duff who has been on the airwaves and in print recently as the face and voice of Hibernian