{"id":454679,"date":"2026-04-26T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/454679\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:56:10","slug":"ucc-v-shannon-promotion-playoff-abandoned-due-to-medical-emergency-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/454679\/","title":{"rendered":"UCC v Shannon promotion playoff abandoned due to medical emergency \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ail\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ail\">All-Ireland League<\/a> Division 1B\/2A promotion playoff between UCC and Shannon at The Mardyke on Saturday afternoon was abandoned during the second half after the UCC captain Sam O\u2019Sullivan had to undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for an estimated 20 minutes on the pitch and was responding well overnight in Cork University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s father is Tadhg O\u2019Sullivan, who has worked with Munster for years and his brother Jack is the former Munster backrow who is now playing with the Red Hurricanes in Osaka in Japan. They are also cousins of Billy, Niall and Rory Scannell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">UCC RFC president John Fitzgerald has written an update to all fellow 1B clubs in which he stated: \u201cYou may have heard about the medical incident at the UCC v Shannon game today. Our captain Sam O\u2019Sullivan is now at CUH responding well under expert care. The response by the Emergency Medical Services was world class. Thank you for your kind wishes. I am the point of contact for any further information. Best wishes. John Fitzgerald.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">UCC were 31-12 ahead past the hour mark when O\u2019Sullivan became unwell and the outcome of the match will be decided by the All-Ireland League Competitions Committee this coming week. The likelihood is that UCC will be awarded the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All-Ireland League Division 1B\/2A promotion playoff between UCC and Shannon at The Mardyke on Saturday afternoon was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[64659,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-454679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ail","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116471122361735687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}