Healy and Farrelly fail in CAS appeal

COLIN HEALY and Gareth Farrelly will have to see out the rest of their sentence after the Court Of Arbitration For Sport (CAS) in Switzerland yesterday rejected Cork City’s appeal against the FIFA ruling which has kept the two players on the sideline since they signed for the club in February.

It was always the case that Healy and Farrelly would be eligible to play from the start of next month but Cork had been hoping that the CAS would uphold their appeal in time to allow the players to be available for selection for Friday’s Cup game against Shelbourne and the Intertoto qualifier against Valur of Iceland later this month.

The City delegation – which included manager Damien Richardson, the two players and legal representatives — received what they felt was a sympathetic hearing when they presented their case to the Tribunal in Lausanne yesterday.