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2 - It is very likely that a defibrillator pitch-side or at the clubrooms would have saved Fran Leonard RIP - this is one obvious solution.

But will we ever have the situation where a defibrillator will be present at every game (and obviously with an operator on standby)?  I lost a close relative at a game and have seen 3 other spectators go the same way.  A defib may have saved them, but then who knows?  It certainly wouldn't do any harm - how much for one?

You may be right Dubnut, screening would identify people with heart defects (i think maybe the young rugby player who died shortly after McAnallen), but in some instances there is no obvious solution.  It'd probably be wiser for screening to be introduced, but would the school not be the obvious place to do it - surely that's where most children start playing sports anyway, and one would think that really this should be started there?  I mean, this problem can affect anyone who has a defect and subsequently over exerts, I presume, so, perhaps government interrvention is required, feck knows they throw enough money at health without any tangible results, this would be an easy few million, that might actually make a difference.
As for your mates etc who were playing, that must have been a terrible experience.

I only buy the paper as the wife likes the TV mag & magazines that come in it
its sihte otherwise

Do all ye Dungiven men either buy or write for thon paper?  Honestly, ye should be ashamed of yourselves, tv mag or not, this is the newspaper that castigated Celtic for allowing some gaelic footballers to show their recently acquired silverware in Celtic Park, the problem being that said trophy was named after a former IRA terrorist - apparently some lad Maguire from London.
They also ran a big story on Nail Bomb Tom (as they called him), or Tom McFeeley from the Foreglen and now one of Dublin's big property players was a fomer terrorist hunger striker.  It was lucky Dungiven didn't win the hurling or there'd have been uproar about the Lynch's playing in Croker.....

Tragic RIP...
How many cases of this are we going to let occur before Mandatory screening for all players is brought in.

Will that actually make a difference?  In Cormac McAnallen's case was his heart not weakened by a virus he'd picked up shortly before his death, hence, cardiac screening would only have worked if he'd been screened in the relatively short window period when he had the virus?  I'm open to correction on this one, and it is a tragedy, just maybe not a preventable tragedy.

Or the ref in Derry v Cork minor semi in 2000, Cork midfielder got 2 yellows and stayed on for the duration, game continued, Cork sneaked through by 1 pt and won the All Ireland.  Croke Park suggested Cork offer a replay, the true gael Mr Frank Murphy decided against such a magmanimous gesture.

John Bannon blowing a free against Henry Downey for a text book shoulder '99. Armagh scored the free won by a point, thus starting their dominance of Ulster championships. The blanket defence could have been killed forever if he hadn't give it.

Even worse, in the same game Tohill got the ball on the Armagh 14 deep into injury time, 12 Armagh defenders (well they did employ blanket defence at the time) jumped on him and dragged him down, what happened, don't remember rightly, but I think it was a free out for overcarrying.  So set in motion a long love affair between Derry and the excellent Mr. Bannon (although he may have officiated at the debacle that was the '98 semi v Galway too).

Lads, theres been a massive over reaction to this beating, do none of you remember 2004, we absoultely hammered them - i was there with some Aussies and they were embarrassed by the display.  We have handed out plenty of good beatings so getting a few isn't something we shoudl be getting too worried about just yet.  It should also be borne in mind that a sub standard irish team was picked, I dunno what Boylan's thinking was, but it was seriously flawed as were the tactics.