Doping director defends League final testing

The four players drug-tested after Sunday’s Division 1 final were granted permission by testers to watch the Laochra show that followed the game.

Dr Una May, director of the Irish Sports Council anti-doping unit, said there had been measures taken to ensure those called on to give urine samples could choose to delay going through the procedure to take in the 1916 commemoration.

Afterwards, Dublin manager Jim Gavin took umbrage at the timing of the testing.