Éamonn Fitzmaurice: Who leaked the details? That’s the big question

In American politics, they call it a ‘till they drop’ press conference: The full disclosure approach that exhausts every question and suspicion with the intention of putting crippling controversy to bed once and for all.

Whether Kerry manager Éamonn Fitzmaurice succeeded in putting a full stop to the Brendan O’Sullivan doping furore in Tralee yesterday depends on others.

But his full and frank address of the issues in championship week, which lasted the best part of an hour, brought a degree of clarity to the issue and the whole area of supplement use in the GAA on the one hand, and raised some questions of Sport Ireland and the anti-doping process on the other.