Monaghan player gets two-year drugs ban

A GAA player from Monaghan has been provisionally banned from Gaelic games for two years after testing positive for a banned substance.

Latton club man Thomas Connolly provided an out-of-competition urine sample on February 13 last, which was found to contain Stanozolol (hydroxystanozolol glucuronide).

The proposed ban was reduced from the standard four years because the GAA anti-doping hearings committee believed the anti-doping rule violation was not intentional.