Bankruptcy reprieve for former hurler

Former Galway hurler Padraic Connolly and his wife Delia Connolly have been given a last minute reprieve from bankruptcy by a High Court judge.

ACC Bank, which obtained a judgment order against the couple in 2012, put in the bankruptcy petition last week over a €19 million security debt.

Justice Robert Haughton was prepared to make an order for bankruptcy but decided instead to adjourn the case for three weeks in order to ...