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Alan McNamee wins his 13th Offaly senior football medal as Jason McCarthy suffers nasty leg injury in Clare

Published 17:47 25 Sept 2022 BST

Updated 09:34 26 Sept 2022 BST

Alan McNamee wins his 13th Offaly senior football medal as Jason McCarthy suffers nasty leg injury in Clare

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Ten minutes of the second half had been played when, after some distressing scenes, both the Inagh Kilnamona and Éire Óg Ennis players went back into the dressing room.

It was a good half an hour by the time they came back out. Jason McCarthy, the Clare and Inagh Kilnamona player, had suffered a nasty leg injury in the early stages of that second half and, as he lay on the ground, waiting on an ambulance, time seemed to stand still in Cusack Park. A Shane O'Donnell inspired Ennis were leading the game convincingly but at that stage, hurling seemed a secondary thing. With the Offaly football final also due to be broadcast, and due to the lengthy stoppage in play, TG4 were unable to show the closing stages of the match but we were informed that McCarthy would not be moved until the ambulance arrived. We were a long time waiting. It was the guts of 40 minutes before an ambulance made its way onto the field for McCarthy to make his way off. By that stage, the teams were back out warming up for a second time. "Successive governments have allowed our health services to be decimated," tweeted Clare sports journalist Derrick Lynch. "A man was forced to wait on the ground in Cusack Park today with a serious leg break, in the wet cold rain. Almost an hour passed before an ambulance came, in the middle of the county town. Disgraceful." https://twitter.com/DLynchSport/status/1574074187542659080 https://twitter.com/Chase4TheCanon/status/1574054302531756032 And while it may have seemed like another game when they eventually got going, it was the same old story as the brilliant Shane O'Donnell and Danny Russell terrorised the Inagh Kilnamona defence to inspire their teams to the county semi final. O'Donnell ended his day with a whopping 1-9 from play. All thoughts are with Jason McCarthy, and we wish him a speedy recovery. Elsewhere, Naas continued their recent dominance of Kildare hurling with a comprehensive win over Maynooth while Rhode edged Tullamore in a titanic tussle of a football final in Offaly. In that one, Ruairi McNamee's second half goal was the match-winner while Alan McNamee won his 13th senior football county medal. Meanwhile, Portarlington's bid for a three-in-a-row is alive in Laois and they have their goalie Scott Osbourne to thank for that, as you will see in the clip at the bottom of the article. https://twitter.com/SportTG4/status/1574073769445957632