Co Kildare, Ireland. Maurice Ball, rumoured to have been appointed the new Irish football coach angrily, if somewhat incomprehensibly,denied today that he had got the lucrative job while engaged in a marathon drinking session in a pub in the CO. Kildare town of Newbridge.
"Its typical of the meeja inventing a story to create a sensation" said Ball. "The piss up was actually in Celbridge, County Kildare, but I'm not going to name the pub. I wouldn't be seen dead in Newbridge, even if I wasn't barred from every pub in the kip."
Ball is also believed to have appointed several of his drinking buddies to assist him in his new venture.
"The lads are looking forward to the World cup draw," he slurred. "But we only want to travel to REAL countries. Beer drinkin' countries. Not poxy wine drinkin' places like Italy and Spain and France. Me and the mates hate the bleedin' vino!"
