GAA urine samples missing

Missing urine samples from GAA players that were due to form part of a drugs test will be destroyed if they are ever found, the statutory authority for sport has said.

It was revealed yesterday that Sport Ireland, formerly the Irish Sports Council, wrote to the GAA to inform it that samples taken for the purpose of drug-testing went missing after they were sent to a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) laboratory in Germany.

Sport Ireland confirmed the report in the Irish Independent and said the courier used to send the samples has commissioned an investigation into their disappearance.