Hawk-Eye set for spring trial

Hawk-Eye technology will be trialled by the GAA before the end of the Allianz League campaigns, GAA President Christy Cooney has confirmed.

The technology, which is already used in other sports such as cricket and tennis, could instantly decide disputed scores during games courtesy of strategically placed cameras behind the goalposts.

Cooney confirmed that it would be tested this spring, with the 2 April, when Dublin face a hurling-football double-header against Kilkenny and Down, a likely date.

Cooney said: ‘We would hope to trial it in a game in Croke Park in the near future. We are looking at the Dublin games at the moment.

‘We are testing it to see how it works. We will have a meeting in May to analyse that and discuss the whole costing and feasibility of having it at all of our grounds.

‘It won't be in use in this year but it is something for the future and something we will look very seriously at. It has to be right and to be effective and we have to be able to do it at all of our county games.’