THE IRFU THIS morning confirmed that the 118 tests for Covid-19 administered to players and staff in Ulster and Connacht Rugby have delivered zero positive results
The tested group now join counterparts in Leinster and Munster, who returned 140 negative outcomes last week, and are cleared to return for training from Monday 29 June.
“The first phase of PCR testing has been successfully completed,” said the IRFU’s medical director Dr Rod McLoughlin after 258 tests with zero positives.
“The players and staff now enter a period of daily medical screening and assessment. The second phase of testing will take place as players return to contact.”
The tests, taken by players and staff in Ulster and Connacht on Wednesday, were carried out by Cork-based company Advanced Medical Studies and the green light has allowed the professional game on this island a two-month ramp-up to a return to action.
Competitive rugby is due to return on 22 August with the resumption of a curtailed Guinness Pro14. 18 September brings about the Heineken Champions Cup quarter-finals, in which Ulster face a tough trip to Toulouse while Leinster host Saracens.
I like the way one of the answers is written on the picture tagline :)
@Donal Peoples: honestly thought it was a trick question and was 99% sure it was him lol
Jim Staples, what a player
@my name: The only one I got right.
10/10 here. Good quiz
@Jim Demps: that question 9 tho……
@Hugh Dunne: era is always know the ex munster players
@Hugh Dunne: Can never forget that face rampaging through South Africans in the Irish away kit. One of the most exceptional performances I remember.
Got the Mason question wrong.
5 out of 10 and proud. Love those quizzes. Keep em comin !
First 10/10 in a while.
@Robb Stark: Sure you did Robb… Sure you did.
@Robb Stark: All scores should be declared null and void. It’s a disgrace to be having quizzes like that when people are dying.
@Larry Betts: couldn’t agree more, Larry. Well said.
@Larry Betts: go have a lie down.
@Mark C: ’twas only a dig at someone who says that at every oportunity! ;-)
Back when it was about the sport and not posing on Instagram
5 out of 10 brutal!
Going well for once in these quizzes..Simon Mason let me down for the slam
8/10 I’m happy to say. Dropped the ball on a couple.
7. Not bad.