Wimbledon is a tennis-free zone in Ireland this week. There wasn’t even an Irish competitor in the qualifying rounds, and the Blazers won’t wander through London SW19 either because foreign associations have been kept out of the pandemic. Irish representation will be Dave Miley, the Dubliner who was shunned by Tennis Ireland but oversees Kazakhstan’s squad of six professionals who made it to the All England Club final.
Miley has been involved in some extraordinary scraps of tennis over the past few years. First, he sued Tennis Ireland and won a case in which they had acted unlawfully and discriminated against by not granting him the chairman of the board he was running for. Then