Tipp board set to push for ‘video referees’

TIPPERARY County Board may put a proposal before next year’s Congress urging the GAA to utilise video referees in major games.

The suggestion came from Bord Chairman Barry O’Brien yesterday in Dublin, where long-serving goalkeeper Brendan Cummins revealed that he had urged Diarmuid Kirwan to look at a re-run of the penalty incident, which by common consent proved crucial in a marvellous All-Ireland hurling final.

Said Cummins: “I shouted at the ref, ‘look at the big screen, you have a second, take a breath.’ I suppose things are getting so competitive and in a moment like yesterday when we came so close to Kilkenny.