Anxious players await payment as City prepare to settle tax bill

WITH Cork City preparing to meet today’s 5pm deadline to settle a €439,000 tax liability bill with the Revenue Commissioners, the club’s players learned yesterday afternoon that they will not be paid today as promised last week.

The Leesiders must lodge €219,000 to the Revenue’s bank account this evening prior to yet another High Court hearing tomorrow morning so as to ensure the rescinding of a long-standing winding-up order, thus ending a saga which officially began on May 13.

The players had deferred payment of wages until this morning – with five weeks earnings owed – but sources have suggested they are agreeable to waiting it out until tomorrow morning as they await on developments this evening.