HawkEye verified as a real success story

In this era of marginal gains, the GAA has made its own with the implementation of HawkEye. There can be little doubt it had a valuable impact to the feast of hurling produced last weekend.

Called on four times on Saturday and five on Sunday, the integrity of the matches was upheld by the ball-tracking system.

Sure, there was one umpire at the Hill 16 end on Sunday who was a little too keen to draw an imaginary box with his fingers. After one of those men in white stationed at the Davin Stand goalposts waved a Limerick shot wide in the first half of normal time, manager John Kiely too wanted a HawkEye review and made his thoughts known to referee Paud O’Dwyer. However, in such circumstances, O’Dwyer can only do so when he has been informed by the HawkEye official in his ear-piece that a review is warranted.