Dr O Driscoll

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Johnny Sexton goes off with a head injury during the Six Nations match against Wales last Sunday. Photo: David Rogers/Getty Images
Noise around Johnny Sexton only muddies the concussion waters further

Concussion did not have its best week ever defining itself to the great unwashed. Dr Barry O’Driscoll fearlessly stepped forward to again assert that (...)

Dr Barry O’Driscoll believes the present concussion protocols in rugby union are there for commercial reasons.
Dr Barry O’Driscoll believes rugby’s concussion protocols not fit for purpose

“It has got worse since I resigned,” says Dr Barry O’Driscoll, the former medical adviser to World Rugby who stepped down in 2012 to protest against t(...)

Irish cardiologists have found a way to repair damaged cardiac muscle and reduce the risk of future heart failure by injecting a growth promoter into the hearts of heart attack sufferers. Photograph: Getty Images
Irish researchers ‘cut risk of heart failure with one injection’

A team of Irish cardiologists have shown that injecting an insulin-like growth promoter into the hearts of patients who have suffered a severe heart a(...)

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney: more than €20 million has been awarded to almost 40 agri-food and forestry research projects. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Over €20 million awarded to agri-food and forest research

Grants of more than €20 million have been awarded to almost 40 agri-food and forestry research projects, Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has s(...)

Dr Barry O’ Driscoll, a former IRB Medical Advisor, is one of the prime critics of the IRB protocols.
Six Nations Championship and Celtic Rugby adopt IRB’s concussion protocols

Both the Six Nations Championship and the Celtic Rugby Board, who govern the Pro12 League, have adopted the International Rugby Board’s (IRB) concuss(...)

Ben Robinson: died as a result of head injuries suffered during a schools rugby game when playing for Carrickfergus Grammar. Photo: Alan Lewis/Photopress
Player welfare demands the IRB reassesses its policy on concussion
  • Rugby
  • December 23, 2013, 01:00

In August the NFL, the most lucrative sports league in the world, announced that it had agreed the terms of a US$765 million personal injuries settlem(...)