Jennings cited for alleged eye-gouging incident

LEINSTER back row Shane Jennings has been cited for “contact with the eye/eye area” of opponent Nick Kennedy in his side’s defeat last Friday at the hands of London Irish in the RDS – but the Premiership side’s captain, Bob Casey, has weakened the case against Jennings, admitting yesterday that Kennedy “overreacted” to the incident.

The Leinster number seven will appear before an independent disciplinary committee as a result of the citing lodged by the Citing Commissioner for the match, Richard McGhee of Scotland.

The citing refers to alleged contact with the eye/eye area of London Irish second row Kennedy in the first half of last Friday night’s game, but Kennedy’s team-mate Bob Casey weakened the case against Jennings considerably in his newspaper column yesterday, where he wrote that his fellow lock had overreacted to the encounter with the Leinster player.