Hawk-Eye study gets go-ahead

THE GAA’s management committee has given the green light to a feasibility study into Hawk-Eye technology being used in the All-Ireland senior football and hurling championships.

However, it is unlikely that the results from the test will be obtained in time to present them at next April’s Annual Congress in Westmeath, meaning the technology might not be in operation until 2013.

It had been anticipated that the study’s findings could be revealed before next year’s Mullingar congress where a motion could be tabled in support of the sensor system. Were it to be passed, Hawk-Eye would be used in the 2012 championships.