Déise camogie boss Donal O'Rourke has called for more medical assistance at All Ireland championship games. Waterford's first round clash with Tipperary was abandoned in The Ragg last Saturday as Tipp forward Nicole Walsh was airlifted to Beaumont Hospital due to a heavy concussion.
"The Camogie Association let themselves down to be honest with you and more importantly let down the Waterford and Tipperary players. You saw Patrick Bonner Maher on Sunday, he had a serious cruciate knee ligament injury, he was off the pitch in two minutes. It was so professional. First and foremost, the game was out in The Ragg, I know it's the home of Tipperary camogie, but Thurles is fifteen minutes in the road where you have the facilities and easy access to ambulances and things like that. The Camogie Assocation need to have these structures in place. To have no ambulance at a game of that magnitude; at any championship game really there should be someone on-call. The players were let down if you ask me."
Hear more from Donal O'Rourke on Friday's Lár Na Páirce from 6.10 on WLR.
