Kart driver Sheahan gets nine-month ban

Cork kart driver Cian Sheahan has been banned for nine months after being found guilty of an anti-doping violation.

The 26-year-old, affiliated to Motorsport Ireland, was found to have taken cannabis in advance of a competition.

Sheahan competed in a Munster Kart Club Race meeting at Watergrasshill, on March 11 last and a sample tested positive for the presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolite or marker, tetrahydrocannabinol (cannabis).