Irish Sport Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel determines rule violation

The Irish Sports Council and the Football Association of Ireland jointly announced today that the Irish Sport Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel has determined that Christopher Kenny who plays for Wexford Youths, has committed an anti-doping rule violation.

The Panel found that, contrary to Article 2.1 of the Irish Anti-Doping Rules, the presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolite, cannabis, was found in a sample of the player's urine collected during in-competition testing at a match at Turner's Cross between Wexford Youths and Cork City Foras on the 6th August 2010.

Christopher Kenny was not provisionally suspended prior to the hearing of the Panel. At the hearing, the Panel reprimanded the player and sanctioned him, subject to his right to appeal within 14 days, by the imposition upon him of a period of ineligibility of six months, with effect from 1st March 2011.

The hearing was held under Article 8 (Disciplinary Process) of the Irish Anti-Doping Rules and this announcement is made pursuant to Article 15 (Public Disclosure) of the Rules.

Issued on behalf of the Football Association of Ireland and the Irish Sports Council.