Shane Stapleton: ‘If this is what rugby players go through, I don’t know how they go back into contact’

In February, Tipperary selector Shane Stapleton was concussed following an seemingly innocuous collision with Clare’s Jamie Malone at Cusack Park in Ennis. The incident triggered a frightening chain reaction with seizures, hospitalisation, and being unable to work for almost a month. Now fully recovered, he tells his story to John Fogarty

Shane Stapleton would take you back there if he could but he is unable to do so. He has no memory of the incident that left him in hospital for a couple of days and kept him out of work for four weeks.

All the Tipperary selector can tell you about is the fright, not how his concussion and seizures spooked him but scared his wife Claire, their two girls and his parents.