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Irish Times
03-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
Leinster 34 Northampton 37: How the Leinster players rated in Champions Cup semi-final
Hugo Keenan: Involved from the beginning. Tackle early on Freeman important. Worked hard in the air and in support on a day when Leinster generally were off key. Rating: 6 Tommy O'Brien: First touch was a super kick and chase. Good on high balls and a willing tackler. More of the same in a second half, full of vim and energy from the winger. Rating: 7 Garry Ringrose: Big tackles in first half and huge pressure on Northampton for O'Brien kick. Carried well into a ferocious Northampton defence, high energy input. Rating: 7 Robbie Henshaw: Took and made some heavy tackles early on and as always was a willing defensive bulwark. Didn't get a chance to get decent forward ball. Rating: 6 READ MORE James Lowe: First touch was to take the ball in midfield. Took his try in the second half well and was always involved in the play. Like others, occasionally inaccurate. Rating: 6 Leinster's Sam Prendergast is tackled by Fraser Dingwall and Henry Pollock of the Northampton Saints. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho Sam Prendergast: A mixed bag in the first 40 minutes. A few tackles missed again but some good kicking and passing. Excellent pressure conversion for Lowe's try at end. Rating: 6 Jamison Gibson-Park: As ever quick with the tap penalty to find Prendergast for O'Brien try. Kept tempo high but couldn't dictate the match as he usually does. Rating: 6 Cian Healy: Put in a good 20-minute shift until Porter came in. Ticked the boxes with a high work rate of tackling and hard yards in what was a furious start. Rating: 6 Leinster's Jamison Gibson-Park struggled to have his usual influence on the game. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho Dan Sheehan: Got down and dirty without finding any space for attacking runs. Likes to get hands on the ball but Leinster were just off on accuracy on the day. Rating: 6 Tadhg Furlong: A busy day in the scrum and in the breakdown. Didn't pop up all that often to punch forward like he often can, but didn't shirk the hard yards. Rating: 6 Joe McCarthy: Began to show towards the end of the first half but stayed quiet enough until then. Late in the game he began to find space and made important gains. Rating: 6 RG Snyman: Like others he struggled to make an impact in the first half. Wasn't getting the famed offloads away and was essentially stopped at source too often. Rating: 6 Max Deegan: Dynamic in the first half and nice pass off the deck for the van der Flier try. Was strong in the lineout with Leinster on backfoot too often. Rating: 6 Leinster's Josh van der Flier scores a try against Northampton. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho Josh van der Flier: One of the players who shone in the first half doing the tackling, running and support. Rewarded with a try and almost got another. Strong input. Rating: 7 Caelan Doris: Began to profile only at the end of the first half, peeling off the scrum. Came into it some more but not the presence he normally is despite the try. Rating: 6 Coach − Leo Cullen: Leinster had to reset after the Scarlets defeat but the evidence was they did not do that sufficiently. In the end it was the bounce of the ball but few were saying Northampton didn't deserve to win the match. Rating: 6 Replacements: Ryan Baird brought some much needed energy and the replacements brought them back into the match. But like the starters, there was too much inaccuracy. Rating: 6
BBC News
30-04-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Heart screening to detect undiagnosed conditions in young people
Staff and students at a university are being screened for undiagnosed heart University of Gloucestershire has teamed up with the Cardiac Risk in the Young charity (CRY) to carry out electrocardiogram (ECG) tests, which can detect heart muscle disorders and electrical faults of the to the charity, at least 12 seemingly fit and healthy young people aged 35 and under die from undiagnosed heart conditions every week in the Scarle, associate head of the university's school of health and social care, said: "Many heart conditions that affect young people do not present with symptoms until it is too late and they suffer a cardiac arrest." Depending on the results of the ECG, participants will be offered the opportunity to undergo an ultrasound scan of the heart to provide further information and where necessary be referred to their GP for further tests."Since we started holding our heart screening day in 2013, a number of students, staff and local people have been diagnosed with underlying heart problems of which they were previously unaware," Ms Scarle said."We want to work to detect these conditions so that young people can receive the right treatment and support for the conditions and the reduce the number of young people dying from cardiac arrests." The screening is being jointly funded by the Ashley Goodwin Memorial from Gloucester, died suddenly from a previously undiagnosed heart condition in July 2007, the day after his 35th parents, Linda and Geoff, set up a memorial fund in his honour to raise funds and awareness of cardiac screening. Ms Goodwin said their lives "changed forever" when Ashley died having suffered a cardiac arrest."He had taken part in the London Marathon runs of 2005 and 2006 and was in the process of completing his police training course, so it was virtually impossible for us to come to terms with his sudden death when he was simply sitting on a sofa making notes," she said."For every life saved through early diagnosis, so are those of parents, siblings friends and in some cases partners and children, who will not have to endure the feeling of loss that we and hundreds of other families have," she said. CRY said research showed that one in every 300 young people screened by the charity will be identified with a potentially fatal heart condition, if left untreated and unmonitoredChief Executive of CRY, Dr Steven Cox, said: "In 80% of these cases, there will have been no signs or symptoms of a heart defect, which is why CRY believes screening is so vitally important, particularly for those involved in sport and regular, physical activity".
