High Court ruling leaves City facing end game

“We’re right in extra time” said Cork City owner Tom Coughlan outside the High Court in Dublin yesterday.

Others thought injury-time would be the more appropriate football analogy, as a painful end appeared to loom for one of the League of Ireland big guns.

The club’s failure to settle a tax bill which, according to the Revenue Commissioners, now stands at just over €439,000 had led to Ms Justice Mary Laffoy making a winding-up order for the holding company which runs Cork City.