Rory O'Connor

These are the players who probably have the greatest incentive to dope.

And it's not casting aspersions to say there should be more testing.

There should be more testing at that level of sport than there used to be, as far as I'm aware.

This should be a level that is tested at because...

I guess maybe, I don't know, has the eye been taken off the ball a little bit?

I guess resources are challenged at every level.

Maybe they're more targeted at the upper end and they're going after the pros, which would make sense to some degree.

But Will flagged a story that's broken just an hour before we came into the studio that six members of the Georgia national team have been suspended as well as a member of staff because of...

anti-doping finding, a WADA investigation that's been going on for some time in conjunction with World Rugby around them submitting false samples to WADA and also the Georgian anti-doping officials alerting the team that the dopers were on their way

And this is all being uncovered in a sting.

The dope testers were on their way.

So this is an elite team.

It'll be at the World Cup next year.

We had Ben Rumsby's report on South Africa last week.

It just feels like the issue is bubbling back up towards the surface.

Having really not been talked about for a while in rugby, even though we all know the advantages are incredibly clear to any player.

That if you could get away with it, doping would make you a better rugby player and would give you a better chance of getting a contract, becoming an international and all those sorts of things.

So I would hope the sport had been incredibly vigilant around that and that Sport Ireland had been incredibly vigilant around that.

And just the jarring nature of the report was that there were so few tests and that kind of gap between Sport Ireland and what they thought they were supposed to be doing.

1B is a strong division as well.