Tommy Martin: VAR in the GAA would be an act of cultural vandalism

Soccer’s fate tells us that once the tolerance for bumbling human incompetence is banished by the use of technology in one area, a sense of momentum gathers for the machines to take over everything.

SCREEN TEST: Con O’Callaghan of Dublin telling referee Brendan Cawley to look at the Croke Park big screen during last Sunday's defeat by Kerry. Pic: ©INPHO/James Lawlor

If anything should act as a belated wake-up call for the class of bungling administrators, refereeing jobsworths and tech-obsessed fun sponges who have foisted the current version of video technology on top-level soccer, it’s that so few people want VAR to come to the GAA.

This despite the events of last Sunday when Dublin’s hopes of beating Kerry in the All-Ireland football semi-final were, arguably, fatally damaged by refereeing calls that some sort of technological input could have swung their way.