Sport Ireland: Home testing key factor in grants

Sport Ireland (SI) have confirmed they are withholding Government grants due to inter-county players from last year — but on the basis that they don’t have an agreement in place with the GPA for future drug-testing measures.

SI director of participation and ethics Dr Una May stated for the funding being released, they were seeking a commitment to provide the home addresses of inter-county players for doping tests next year.

She said they and the GAA were led to believe the move was in principle acceptable to the official inter-county players body.