Hawk-Eye will be turning a blind eye to Sunday’s ladies football finals

Croke Park’s Hawk-Eye score detection technology won’t be available for use during Sunday’s TG4 All-Ireland ladies football finals, partly because of the associated costs.

Ladies football head Marie Hickey confirmed that discussions took place about utilising the system, which has been in place for men’s games at GAA Headquarters since 2013, but that the decision was eventually taken not to proceed.

She explained that the prohibitive turnaround time for recalibrating the system to accommodate the smaller ball used in the ladies game was one reason while unspecified associated costs was another.