Brothers Darragh Canavan and Ruairí Canavan were taken to hospital after Errigal Ciarán’s All-Ireland club SFC final defeat to Cuala.

Manager Enda McGinley confirmed that both players suffered concussion during the Croke Park encounter which the Tyrone champions lost by four points after staging an heroic second half comeback.

“Both of the boys aren’t great, unfortunately,” he told the assembled media.

“They’re both going to head to hospital now for further checks and whatnot.

“Darragh obviously came off, he was groggy and he was not right … he just took a knee unfortunately to the head, it happened close enough to me. So, when I went out to him, I knew it was probably serious enough and you just can’t take risks with that.

“Then Ruairí unfortunately, I didn’t realise at the time but he was the first player I went to after the match and he was well out of it.

“On reflection, the last five-10 minutes, I’m not sure where his hit came, but unfortunately he’s well dazed as well.

“So, the two boys will go and please God they’ll come round, I’m sure they will. That’s part of it; it didn’t impact on anything. I think the boys that were on the pitch did their level best to make a shape of it in the second half, but the two boys unfortunately picked up knocks.”

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