Drug test doused fire on All-Ireland celebrations – Brogan

Dublin All-Ireland winner Bernard Brogan admits that a required drug-test moments after the All-Ireland final win over Kerry turned down the volume on his post-match celebrations.

Brogan was singled out to provide a random drug sample in the wake of the stunning win over the Kingdom in September.

And while match-winning goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton voluntarily vacated the Croke Park premises as soon as the final whistle was blown, it turns out his teammate Brogan also missed much of the on-field celebrations - albeit against his will.

In an end-of-year documentary to be screened by TV3 on Thursday night next (29 December), the 2010 Footballer of the Year said, “I don't remember much of those moments as I was actually getting drug tested straight after the game.

“So my celebrations were muted for 20 minutes or so until I got sorted and it was a different time for me. I was inside having to give my sample. I came back in here and a lot of the lads were gone so my buzz was a bit muted.

“We want to keep everybody clean. It's an amateur game. We want lads to be at their best physically without any performance enhancing drugs. I got caught on a bad day, an All-Ireland winning day. But it has to be done.”