Rory's Three Closest Confidants Called Out In Case

Tim Healy reports on day three of the pre-trial proceedings in Rory McIlroy v. Horizon and the defense will be claiming that McIlroy's father along with two eventual employees of McIlroy, including Sean O'Flaherty who worked for Horizon at the time of the breakup,"made a concerted effort" to "destabilize" the partnership.

Healy writes:

Those people included consultant Donal Casey, who later became CEO of Rory McIlroy Inc, it was claimed.

They included the golfer's personal assistant Sean O'Flaherty, and his father Gerry McIlroy, the court was told by Maurice Collins SC, for Horizon Sports Management Ltd and two other companies.

He said: "It is a central part of my clients' case that in the period subsequent to January 2013, Mr Casey, Mr O'Flaherty and Gerry McIlroy made a concerted effort to destabilised the relationship between Rory McIlroy and Horizon."

The judge's decision on the mobile-phone-wiping-to-avoid-journalists issue will be given later.