‘MINIMAL’ RISK OF INFECTION AT MATCHES
October 19, 1993 Dublin
Left half-back Clontarf
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2018, 2019)
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All-ireland final man of the match 2 (2018, 2019 drawn game); Young Player of the Year 2013; Footballer of the Year
2015; All Star Awards 3 (2015, 2017, 2018); Sunday Game Player
of the Year 2015.
CORONAVIRUS
A LEADING member of the GAA’S Covid Advisory Group has stressed the risk of players becoming infected at training or games is minimal.
Professor Mary Horgan (below) is the infectious diseases expert on the committee and has no qualms sending her own children back to a games environment with the measures that the GAA have put in place. The Kerry woman, speaking on the GPA’S Players’ Voice podcast, said: “Based on the knowledge we have in time, I think the benefits of going back to sports
THE WAIT IS OVER for children, without social distancing, far outweigh the risks and all my colleagues in paediatrics within the college of physicians would absolutely support that.”
She added: “Put it this way – my kids don’t play a huge amount of sport but would I have any problems about sending them back to sport? Absolutely not. The risk, I mean, there is no such thing as zero risk but the low risk is in younger people who have no other major underlying health conditions. And that’s what we know as of now.”
Prof Horgan said the likelihood of contracting coronavirus outdoors is “twenty-fold” less than if engaging in indoor activity which, she says, “is huge when you think about it”.
“The fresh air, the wind is blowing, so your chances of picking up the infection outside is much lower than in a closed environment and
I think that’s an important thing to emphasise to the players,” she added.