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4th February 2016
06:03am GMT
"Mayo came out and said he should have come off – and he should have. It was blatantly obvious he should have come off. Everyone is getting more aware of it now. It is a serious injury."
"To give credit to Dave Boylan, the club doctor, he’s straight down the middle with these things. I don’t think he would have put me on if I was in that state."Concussion is tough to define. Okay, I knew I was after getting a bang on the head – I was feeling blurred, dizzy. But it’s very hard to say, 'Yes, you are clinically concussed'. If it’s blatantly obvious, there is a fair old chance you have it."
"If you were looking at the television, it’s very hard to focus your eyes. Blurred vision. You don’t feel well at all… dizzy. Getting pale. Fatigue sets in. You’re straining your eyes. Any movement effects you."Apart from the medical side of things, playing a game of hurling wouldn’t be ideal with the ball fizzing around."
"People were saying to me that it was just protocol that wasn’t allowing me to play but the symptoms don’t allow you to play. Bar the obvious dangers that have been publicised recently, the symptoms alone will stop you."
"It was Loughgiel's first time maybe getting national exposure. They're a super team and maybe didn't get the credit beforehand but once they took our scalp everyone was well aware of it. Unfortunately for us we were the guinea pigs for it maybe but definitely we were startled at the start."Brought to you by AIB GAA, proudly backing Club & County. Follow AIB GAA on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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