Students design device to keep gumshields in safe hands

An enterprising group of secondary school students in Tipperary have designed a gumshield-storing glove suitable for Gaelic football.

UShield — the brainchild of four pupils in Cahir’s Coláiste Dún Iascaigh — incorporates a mesh pocket on the glove to secure the gumshield.

Gumshields are mandatory in Gaelic football and ladies football and the rule made headlines recently when Kildare’s Eoin Doyle picked up a second yellow card for not having his mouthguard in place when receiving a kick-out in their league clash with Donegal.