FELIX HEALY'S 11 month touchline ban has been amended by an FAI arbitration hearing. The Derry City manager will now be suspended from the dug out for the first eight league games next season, while the fine against him has been increased to £1,000.
The tribunal consisted of Paddy Dempsey, chairman, Dr Tony O'Neill (who represented Healy) and Bernard O'Byrne for the FAI.
Healy expressed satisfaction with the outcome, commenting: "I think that this punishment is far more in line with the offence which was committed."
Meanwhile, the National League's representatives in this summer's Intertoto Cup have been handed an apparently attractive and potentially rewarding draw against opposition from Germany and Belgium (at home) and Switzerland and Israel (away).
The Irish club will not begin their group games until the weekend of June 28th/29th when they will be at home to Belgium's third qualifying team.
On the weekend of July 5th/6th they will be away to Israel's top qualifier. The following weekend, July 12th/13th, the Irish qualifier will host Germany's second qualifying team before concluding their Group Four programme away to the second Swiss qualifiers on July 19th.
