Can Gordon Lyons’ NI Football Fund avoid legal fights of Irish League’s past?

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons with Gerard Lawlor of the Northern Ireland Football League and Conrad Kirkwood of the Irish Football Association at the launch of the Northern Ireland Football Fund Sports Minister Gordon Lyons has learned from the error of his predecessors’ ways if the funding document he produced on Thursday is to be executed fully. In all probability, there will still be a bunfight for the £36.2m of Northern Ireland Football Funding as Lyons has already been told the overdue cash injection will not be enough.

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