Leinster coach Leo Cullen is confident Johnny Sexton should be fit to feature in Saturday’s New Year’s Eve clash against Ulster at the RDS.

IRFU performance director David Nucifora insists Johnny Sexton will not be rushed back to action until he is 100% fit.

A lawyer who suffered an acquired brain injury when he failed to regain consciousness after he got an anaesthetic for a routine back procedure has settled his High Court action for €7.1m.

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Performance-enhancing drug abuse is a public health crisis, a medical expert has warned, with many people now taking sports supplements for cosmetic reasons.

A leading medical expert on concussion in sport has cast doubts on rugby’s current reliance on Pitch Side Concussion Assessments (PSCAs) to determine whether players suspected of taking blows to the head should be removed from play.

The long-term effects of sports-related concussion are the focus of a major research project launched in Dublin yesterday.

Connacht’s star player Robbie Henshaw will be out of action for up to six weeks with a fractured hand.

Rory McIlroy’s seemingly inevitable absence from next week’s Open Championship and possibly beyond should not deter the four-time major champion from kickabouts with his mates, believes Shane Lowry.

GAA player welfare chief Ger Ryan says one of the big challenges facing the association is spreading clear guidelines on concussion beyond inter-county level and out to the 400,000 club players worldwide.

The problem if you make any conclusions after just one round of the league is you can make yourself a hostage to fortune, not just later in the summer but later the same week.

It wasn’t clear-cut. After this year’s All-Ireland, there were conversations about 2015, but the health of his knees was always going to be central to Declan O’Sullivan’s plans for next season.

Bryan Cooper will have his first competitive ride since his horror fall at the Cheltenham Festival when he partners the Dessie Hughes-trained Guitar Pete in the Dunraven Arms Hotel Hurdle at Limerick tomorrow.

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Roscommon's Donie Shine may have suffered cruciate knee ligament damage during last Sunday's Connacht SFC semi-final defeat to Mayo, but the injury is not expected to end his season.

As Brian Hurley sits and waits in the IT Carlow canteen for a three o’clock lecture, he admits he’ll miss the place when he finishes up later this year.

Anyone picking up a newspaper recently has seen that GAA players seem to be undergoing hip operations more often now than ever before.

Amongst his many titles, Eanna Falvey is Director of Sports Medicine at the Sports Surgery Clinic in Santry and team medic to the Irish rugby team. This summer, the Corkman will travel to Australia as assistant Tour doctor with the Lions.

He may come from a legendary hurling family, but Paudie O’Sullivan’s stature in the GAA was little use to him this week as he waited for a Cork hospital operation on a broken leg.

One of Ireland’s top sports medics says the perception of cruciate injuries being rampant in the GAA is exaggerated because “a lot of the victims are high-profile and it’s in the media eye.”

DR Éanna Falvey of the Sports Surgery Clinic, Ireland rugby team doctor, define your terms: what is a cruciate ligament injury?

A leading surgeon has predicted that the GAA’s decision to make the wearing of mouthguards compulsory as of January 2014 will reduce the number of facial injuries suffered by players by up to 80%.

Michael Murphy is expected to miss his Donegal’s do-or-die last Allianz National FL Division 1 encounter against Armagh, but the full-forward did not have surgery this week.

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He was a 19 year-old All-Ireland Senior football medal winner in 2010 but he hasn’t been able to run five yards for the last three months of 2011. Ciaran Sheehan reflects on a year of contrasts with Fintan O’Toole

Following on from the retirements of John Miskella and Anthony Lynch, Cork football manager Conor Counihan has suffered another pre-season setback.

CORK attacker Daniel Goulding will miss the opening rounds of next year’s Allianz Football League after undergoing surgery on his right ankle last week that will put him out of action for three months.

CORK star Daniel Goulding “can’t wait” to return to intercounty action in the New Year after his 2011 season was cut short by an ankle injury sustained in the All-Ireland qualifiers against Down.

CORK football star Daniel Goulding has been ruled out for six weeks, raising serious doubts about his chances of playing for the county again this season.

KERRY boss Jack O’Connor last night backed midfielder David Moran to recover from a season ending cruciate knee injury sustained in Sunday’s league win over Monaghan.

ONE of the Irish squad at Murrayfield tomorrow once sparred with David Haye, but these days prefers curing pain. Michael Moynihan spoke to Irish team medic Eanna Falvey.

EIGHT thousand people saw it, so it must have happened. Henry Shefflin, ruled out of the All-Ireland final after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the semi-final win over Cork, took a full part in training with Kilkenny on Wednesday in Nowlan Park and is in line for a sensational appearance on September 5 as the Cats seek a fifth All-Ireland in a row.

LUKE FITZGERALD will miss Ireland’s Six Nations Grand Slam defence after sustaining a serious knee injury in Sunday’s autumn international draw with Australia.

THE IRFU has appointed Eanna Falvey as the new doctor to the Ireland team.

The IRFU has appointed a new doctor to the Irish rugby team.

An industrial laundry firm has announced plans to create 40 jobs at its facility in the Tallaght area of Dublin.

VHI members who attend Dublin’s new €60 million private sports clinic will have their bills picked up by the health insurer, it was announced yesterday.