O’Neill happy to wait to get hooter system 100% right

Liam O’Neill has expressed the GAA’s ‘relief’ at having road-tested the hooter system at this year’s Sigerson and Fitzgibbon cups while reasserting his commitment that the new procedure will be in place for the 2015 championships.

The association has now postponed the introduction of the time-keeping format twice in recent years, the latest delay coming on Saturday when Central Council examined the evidence accruing from the recent third-level competitions.

A detailed five-page report on the trials was subsequently released by the association yesterday which, in itself, explains why a seemingly simply system which is already used in ladies’ football is taking so much time and effort to get right.