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Ireland Rugby
Rugby Shame!
It is not known who brough the game of Rugby Union into shame at Murrayfield, was it a Scotland player choking O’Gara (practically a murder offence), or the refusal of O’Sullivan to identify the Scot he believes was responsible.
If it occured (and that’s a fact the SRU strongly deny), at least one man knows if he his named, he could face criminal charges.
Lothian & Borders police have in the past taken action against club players on the pitch, so the SRU are understandably keeping quiet!
When asked about it O’Sullivan had plenty to say:
“You should go along to the Scottish hotel and ask them, it’s a simple solution,” he said, knowing that many reporters had followed up on his invitation to interrogate the Scots the previous evening to be told nothing untoward had happened.
“I spoke to Frank Hadden last night but it never came up in discussion.These things are never for discussion at social events. If you look at the front of the papers something did happen. There is evidence that something happened,” said the man who had ensured it was on the front of those papers.
“If nothing happened then maybe the person involved in the incident could come forward and explain what happened and we’d all be wiser, rather than me making accusations that everyone knows I can’t substantiate.
“Maybe we’re all wrong here, maybe it was a complete and utter accident, or he had nothing to do with anything, Ronan has the least amount of information – he went out like a light. If you look at the video he was kicking out, actually, and he was going blue. John Hayes spotted him immediately and put him into the recovery position. It’s a very unfortunate incident and it’s a pity it is overshadowing the game. It was a nasty enough incident, he could have died.”