Anti-Doping

It is your responsiblity as an athlete around what substances enter your body. Please ensure to consult your club doctor around any medications or supplements you may be using. 

Every player should familiarise themselves with the anti-doping rule violations below:

Anti-Doping Rule Violations

  1. Presence of a Prohibited Substance in an Athlete’s Sample
  2. Use or Attempted Use by an Athlete of a Prohibited Substance or a Prohibited Method
  3. Refusing or failing to do a drug test after notification
  4. Committing Three Whereabouts Failures (Filing Failures or Missed Tests) in 12 months
  5. Tampering
  6. Possession of Prohibited Substances and/or Prohibited Methods
  7. Trafficking in any Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method
  8. Administration to an Athlete of any Prohibited Method or Prohibited Substance; assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, covering up
  9. Complicity or Attempted Complicity  - Involvement in an ADRV committed by another person, such as helping to cover up that ADRV or avoid detection, will be sanctioned in the same way as that violation.
  10. Prohibited Association -Associating with a person such as a coach, doctor or physio who has been found guilty of an ADRV or equivalent offence to a doping violation will be sanctioned with a ban of up to 2 years.
  11. Protection of Whistle-blowers - it is an ADRV to threaten another person or to discourage that person from reporting to authorities of information relating to an ADRV, non-compliance with the Code or other doping activity, or to retaliate against another person for doing so.

Sport Ireland Anti-Doping

Sport Ireland Anti Doping is the national anti-doping organisation of the State. It’s functions include the implementation of guidelines, codes of practice, standards of good conduct, fair play and the elimination of doping in sport. As well as planning, implementing and evaluating education and information programmes.

Check your medications, check the list of prohibited substances or find out more about anti-doping rules and regulations via the Sport Ireland Anti-Doping Athlete Zone