Episode 2 I Lár an Aonaigh

WHISTLE BLOWS

PLAYERS SHOUT

MUSIC: Club Foot by Kasabian

CHEERING

Symptoms can be widespread,

so headache is the most common symptom,

loss of awareness of surroundings is another one,

memory interference or memory loss is a common one.

Feeling off balance or losing your balance for a period of time

is a common one.

I think very often just not feeling right,

feeling slow or foggy mentally, feeling dinged.

I read somewhere that 50% of players will try

and mask a concussion in order to stay on the field.

How do you go about dealing with that

and dealing with players who want to stay on and want to win?

I think the players have to be honest, and I think increasingly,

as time has gone on, players are becoming better at doing that.

And they understand the consequences of perhaps trying to

mask a injury, and that ultimately it's likely to catch them out.

Having said that,

I would say that more than 80% of our diagnoses of concussion

happen on the pitch, so we've made the diagnosis

before a player comes off,

and nothing they can do after they come off the pitch

will influence the decision to put them back on.

This is what we say to them - you've only got one brain,

it has to do you for a very long time after you finish playing,

and you need to mind it and look after it, cos it's pretty important

to who you are and what you want to do for the rest of your life.

PLAYERS SHOUT

CHILDREN CHATTER

PARENTS SPEAK IRISH

# Come lay your head beside me

# Close your eyes and feel the heart that lives inside me

# Softly slip into these arms

# And know we can't be seen, but...

# But we can love this way

# Drink, drink and feel unstable

# Tip the ash and leave it on my bedside table

# Softly slip into these arms

# And know we can't be seen

# But we can love this night away

# Softly, dear, slip into these arms

# And know we can't be seen

# But...

# But we can love this way

# Wooo

# Woo-ooh-ooh, woo-ooh

# Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh

# Ba-da, ba-ba, ba

# Woo-ooh

# Ba-da-ba, ooh-ooh

# Ba-da-ba, ooh

# Warm shiver of elation

# Locks and lips and fingertips, divine temptation

# Softly float into my eyes

# And gaze into my eyes

# And we can love this night away

# Softly, dear, slip into these arms

# And know we can't be seen

# But...

# But we can love this way

# Wooo

# Wooo

# Woo-ooh-ooh

# Ba-ba, ba-ba, ba

# Wooo

# Ba-da-ba, ooh

# Ba-da-ba, ooh

# Softly slip into these arms

# And know we can't be seen

# But we can love this night away

# Softly, dear, slip into these arms

# And know we can't be seen, but...

# But we can love this way. #