Irish Premier League in €215k sponsor deal

The Irish Premier League has announced a three-year sponsorship deal worth €215,000 with Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU).

The league, which is the top tier of football in the North, had previously been sponsored by the Irish Daily Mirror. That deal ended in the summer and the competition had no sponsor for the first five matches of the current season.

The league will now be known as the Carnegie Premier League, after the university's ...