Irish Rugby Star Dominic Ryan Gets His Eye Stamped on During Georgia Match

Rugby players are as tough as they come but even they don't sign up for this. 

Irish flanker Dominic Ryan was lucky to escape serious injury after the trailing boot of Viktor Kolelishvili caught him in the eye. 

Irish captain Eoin Reddan asked referee  JP Doyle to look at the incident, but the referee declined after hearing nothing from the Television Match Official (TMO) Jim Yuille.

Irish coach Joe Schmidt said the referee could not be blamed for not doing anything about the incident. 

He said, as per the Irish Times:

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I think the protocol is there that the TMO can let the referee know he believes there has been an incident of foul play. And then he can review it in conjunction with the TMO.

Obviously the incident had past, and by the time Eoin spoke to the referee the game had moved on and he had heard nothing from the TMO.

According to protocol he acted correctly. There is not too much JP Doyle could have done.

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The Georgia coach Milton Haig was adamant the stamp was accidental. 

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We saw it on the replay in the box. I know Vito wouldn’t be doing anything like that intentionally that’s for sure. We haven’t heard anything from the citing commissioner yet.

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Ireland won the game 49-7.

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