GAA has no plans for screening

THE GAA has no immediate plans to introduce a screening programme for players, the Association’s Information Officer Feargal McGill said yesterday.

GAA chiefs acknowledge the threat to health posed by sudden cardiac death syndrome (SADS), but shares the view of the Government — conveyed by the Association’s own Medical Committee — that a screening programme isn’t guaranteed to alert doctors to the particular condition.

A Task Force was set up two years ago to examine the problem and investigate the incidence of sudden death, especially among young people.