Stricken Leitrim player received "first class treatment"
March 19, 2015
McHale Park Castlebar. INPHO
Leitrim County Board has no issue with how U21 full back Gary Butler was treated in Castlebar last week.
The Fenagh St Caillin's defender lay on the MacHale Park pitch for 23 minutes waiting for an ambulance to arrive after being injured in an accidental second-half collision with goalkeeper Brendan Flynn, but Leitrim chairman Terence Boyle refused to lay the blame at anybody's doorstep:
"I wouldn't be too critical of the Connacht Council or the Mayo GAA County Board for not having an ambulance at the game," he states in The Leitrim Observer.
"Gary got first-class treatment on the night from our own personnel and the Mayo team doctor and everthing that could be done for Gary was done. He was taken to hospital purely as a precautionary measure.
"It is not physically possible to have an ambulance at every game and I don't think the Connacht Council or the Mayo County Board did an awful lot wrong."
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