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15 Oct 2024
by Neal Horgan BL
Ireland as a New Seat for Sports Law – How Did We Get Here?
Football fans of a certain age will remember the contribution made by Scottish international footballer Gary McKay to Irish sporting history: on 11 November 1987, Mackay, making his international debut as a substitute, scored a late winner in a meaningless game for the Scots against Bulgaria in Sofia. That result put Jack Charlton’s Ireland team through to UEFA Euro ‘88. In the near future, Irish sports law practitioners may well come to revere in similar terms the names of Dutch ice speed skaters Mark Jan Hendrik Tuitert and Niels Kerstholt for indirectly influencing the appointment of Ireland as a new European seat for sports law.
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