Open Letter to the Members of Athlone Town (Association) Football Club
Dear Athlone Town members, we now appear to be nearing the end of our long-running court saga and a toxic decade of relations with your club. I am confident of success, but my confidence is irrelevant to your interests. It is also extremely unreliable, as I have a very poor record in predicting this stuff. I initially thought that a blatant land grab by people who brought an organised crime racket to Athlone would get short shrift in a court of law. And here we are four years later, they are still in the game. Now to your interests: I will deal first with the financial implications of the two possible outcomes. If we lose (i.e. Garda Dully's case stands up in the Appeal, Supreme and European courts), there will be no negative implications for you. If we win, the situation is unclear. It could be that the plain...