CLERKIN CLARIFIES GAA POSITION AFTER TRUAGH COVID CASE

COLM SHALVEY

The GAA has clarified that members and players who test positive for COVID-19 do not automatically require their clubs to be shut down. Dick Clerkin, chair of Croke Park’s medical, scientific and welfare committee, told The Irish Times: “From a GAA point of view, we are not stating that on the basis of a single case, a club goes into lockdown, which we do see on an ad-hoc basis… To date – and this all could change – if a player or club member tested positive and went into the public health contact tracing system, the authorities weren’t deeming team-mates or training partners as close contacts so they in turn weren’t being called for contact tracing, which suggests that there hasn’t…