Davy Fitzgerald has explained how Clare were absent for two mandatory drugs tests in March, 2013.

The Banner County were fined a total of €1,007 for the costs incurred by the mix-ups on March 5th and 22nd, and were one of seven County Boards punished for not being available to the Irish Sports Council as and when expected.

Cork, Limerick, Tipperary and Galway's hurlers each missed one test, as did the footballers of Donegal and Kildare.

"We didn't miss any drug tests," Davy Fitz tells The Irish Examiner. "The testers turned up at one place but we had moved training.

"We have no problem in cooperating with anything, but our venues change at different times. We have taken rakes of drug tests and all of them have been okay.

"We now have a fella who communicates with the Irish Sports Council all the time to ensure they know where we are and where we will be. Any time they want they're welcome to come and test us. I am totally against performance-enhancing drugs."

Clare secretary Pat Fitzgerald (Davy's dad) confirmed: "They just didn't know that we were to train in one place then we couldn't get that place. It was a change in venue and they weren't aware of it. It was an error but everything was corrected after that and they did a number of tests last year and some this year." Tweet

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