Alan Quinlan: It didn\u2019t matter that a Test match was on the line, concussion protocols had to be followed<\/p>\n
After the game on Saturday, I got a Tweet from Peter Robinson, father of the schoolboy Benjamin Robinson who died on the side of a rugby pitch in January 2011. Since his son\u2019s death, Peter has been campaigning for greater awareness of concussion and so obviously what happened in the Ireland game had a deeper resonance for him than most. Alan Quinlan: It didn\u2019t matter that a Test match was on the line, concussion protocols had to be followed After the game on Saturday, I got a Tweet from Peter Robinson, father of the schoolboy Benjamin Robinson who died on the side of a rugby pitch in January 2011. Since his son\u2019s death, Peter has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9539,15502,14312,15503,5962,5867],"class_list":["post-77070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-dr","tag-eanna","tag-example","tag-falvey","tag-great","tag-set"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77072,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77070\/revisions\/77072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFour Ireland players went through head injury assessment protocols during the game \u2013 Johnny Sexton, Gordon D\u2019Arcy, Rob Kearney and Conor Murray. It was the Murray incident that Peter got in touch with me about. He had suffered a knee in the side of the head from Quade Cooper and although he was clearly groggy afterwards he played on for a few minutes.
\nAs I said at the time on commentary, it was really good to see what happened next. \u00c9anna Falvey, who has been the Ireland team doctor for a few years now, basically took the decision himself to bring Murray off the pitch. If you were in the ground and you had the ref-link radio, you could hear the referee Glen Jackson stopping play to say, \u201cGreen nine, head injury\u201d……………. see the full story at :- http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/dr-%C3%A9anna-falvey-set-great-example-with-call-on-conor-murray-in-australia-match-1.2014741<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"