Bad point call sparks Hawk-Eye debate

THE pressure to introduce Hawk-Eye into the GAA championships intensified yesterday after Dublin were awarded a point that clearly went wide in their Leinster SHC quarter-final win over Offaly.

Alan McCrabbe’s second-minute effort was deemed by John Sexton’s umpire to have gone between the posts although video footage showed it sailed outside the right-hand post.

Supporters and journalists were stunned when the score was given. Dublin manager Anthony Daly, who was standing close to McCrabbe when he struck towards the Hill 16 goal, admitted he didn’t think it was a point.