Hawk-Eye gets its first run-out at Croke Park

GAA history will be made at Croke Park this evening with Hawk-Eye score detection technology trialled in Gaelic games for the first time.

The system, utilised primarily in cricket and tennis, will be focused only on the Hill 16 end of the ground for Dublin’s Allianz League football and hurling encounters against Down and Kilkenny respectively at association headquarters. It is understood that the GAA will not incur any cost in this evening’s trial.

GAA communications manager Alan Milton said: “Cricket and Tennis chiefs only went with the technology because broadcasters were using the technology in covering their games. Hawk-Eye said we were pioneering in that we went to them looking to use it.”