The GAA’s newly-appointed national match officials manager is open to the idea of more technology being used to assist referees, but has questioned just how far it can go.

Presuming the system was recalibrated for hurling — you can’t be too sure — Hawk-Eye justified its cost yesterday. After the calamity of last year’s Limerick-Galway semi-final, it was redemption in a way.

The Limerick County Board’s appeal to the CCCC regarding last Sunday’s controversial All-Ireland MHC semi-final defeat to Galway after Hawk-Eye’s disastrous intervention fell on deaf ears as that body ruled yesterday they were precluded from hearing the objection.

WEXFORD chairman Ger Doyle has welcomed the decision by GAA’s Management Committee and Central Council to back Hawk-Eye on a two-year pilot basis at Croke Park.