The GAA have confirmed that the provisional suspension of Kerry footballer Aidan O'Mahony has been lifted pending his full hearing in front of the GAA's Doping Control Committee (DCC).
The Rathmore player was automatically suspended after tests following this year's All-Ireland final in September showed up excessive amounts of salbutomol in his sample. The substance is used in the treatment of asthma.
O'Mahony is an asthmatic and has registered his condition with the Irish Sports Council, although he will still have to prove that the presence of the drug within his system were consistent with therapeutic use.
His solicitor, Paul Derham, has stated that O'Mahony's Therapeutic use Exemption (TUE) was "fully up to date" and "all in order" and pointed out that the player's sample was only marginally above levels permitted by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The cork solicitor represented Ireland and Munster hooker Frankie Sheahan in his appeal against a two-year ban that was subsequently reduced to three months. Sheahan acknowledged at the time that unlike O'Mahony "he had not properly declared his therapeutic need for salbutomol".
In a statement made on Tuesday through his solicitor, O'Mahony claimed he was "absolutely satisfied that the level of salbutamol in my sample is wholly consistent with my therapeutic use of inhaled salbutamol".
No date has yet been set for O'Mahony's hearing, while the GAA also confirmed that they will make no further comment ahead of the hearing in accordance with Article 15 of the Irish Anti-Doping Rules.