IRELAND and Leinster flanker Shane Jennings yesterday lost his appeal against a 12-week suspension for gouging.
Jennings was handed the suspension for 'making contact with the eye area' of Nick Kennedy in Leinster's 12-9 Heineken Cup defeat by London Irish on October 9.
An independent committee in Dublin dismissed the appeal after finding that Jennings had not demonstrated the original decision had been made in error or that it should be overturned or varied.
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