Gavin: Put Hawk-Eye in provinces

Jim Gavin has declared his utmost faith in Hawk-Eye ahead of the two All-Ireland football semi-finals and advocated an expansion of its role beyond Croke Park and into the provinces.

The fallout from the error which deprived the Limerick minor hurlers of a point in last week’s All-Ireland semi-final has been such that the technology will be monitored closely over the next two weeks. But the Dublin manager has described calls to scrap Hawk-Eye as a knee-jerk reaction and lauded the GAA for investing in a global leader in the area of score detection.

“There has been a massive lesson there learned by Hawk-Eye,” he said. “The GAA sub-contracted to an external company who get people to come in and look after the equipment for them.