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KEVIN McCALLUM: Lies, white lies and killing a player to get out of a tight corner
And so, to Ireland, where, as politicians are performing a Brexit dance over the border with the north, some of their country folk dented EU relations by killing off a visitor to their shores without telling him or actually killing him. Fernando LaFuente, a Spanish national, had played for Ballybrack FC in the Leinster Senior League, an amateur club, after moving to Ireland to work for a software company. He turned out for the south Dublin club, but stopped when he relocated to his company’s Galway office. Ballybrack did not want to play a match against a stronger team, possibly due to not having enough players to make up a team. So, they told the league LaFuente had died. They needed time to mourn. The death was published in the local paper. Other teams in the league held moments of silence for him. LaFuente had died in an accident, they said. Very sad. LaFuente thought it was a bit funny. “I was taken out [of the WhatsApp group] on Saturday,” he told RTE Radio One in Dublin this w...
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