A GAA REFEREE is in a stable condition in hospital after he collapsed during a senior football match in Newry last night, the Irish News reports (print edition).
Maeve Connolly writes that one of Longstone GAA’s backroom team used a pitch-side defibrillator when Gabriel Tumelty, 46, collapsed towards the end of the club’s game against Burren in Pairc Esler.
Though an ambulance arrived within minutes of being called, a Down County Board spokesman said afterwards that the situation could have been worse if there had been no on-site medical equipment.
In 2007, the GAA launched a nationwide initiative to provide Automated External Defibrillators (AED) at every county ground for use by trained personnel.
