‘Everybody’s winging it – including the doctors’ – Players and doctors tell the story of concussion in Irish rugby

‘Winging it’ is never really a phrase that instills you with great confidence but it’s nevertheless acceptable in some realms of life more than others.

It’s okay to wing it when you’re off on a drive down the country and you don’t really know the directions, or when you’re trying to spoof your way through a job interview that you really have no business of being in.

They are perfectly acceptable platforms to ‘wing it’, but when those are the words that are used to describe the state of concussion in rugby, from one of the leading neurologists on the issue in Irish sport in Dr Colin Doherty, then there is some cause for concern.

Read the full article at The Irish Independent.