Former Offaly hurler Joachim Kelly has added his weight to the growing debate in favour of the introduction of video technology in Gaelic games.
Speaking in the Irish Examiner, Kelly admitted: 'I am always campaigning for that. They do it in the rugby; they stop play and roll it back and if you have to spend 10 seconds or 15 seconds with a panel of judges up in the box.
'There’s more stewards and people around this stadium telling you what to do and what not to do. I would have somebody up there on a monitor like they have in the rugby because these teams are training since last November, two, three, four nights a week, weights, gym and everything and it comes down to an incident that could lose you an All-Ireland.'
Kelly, now manager of the Offaly camogie team, was speaking at yesterday’s press conference in Croke Park ahead of Sunday’s All-Ireland senior and junior camogie finals.
He added: 'Maybe if they had video coverage of our goal last year where it was thrown in, we would have won.
'People are saying that it slows up the game but there’s no one going to go home. Everyone is going to wait and they’ll kick-start it again. I think it has to come. There’s too much left to one man on the field, he has too much to do.'
On the final itself, Kelly enthused: 'That was the best All-Ireland final I've seen in my time.
'For the intensity from start to finish, everyone got stuck in, the speed of the hurling, the skill and on a damp day. Some of the scoring was fantastic, Lar Corbett got four great points.'
