O’Neill wants penalty rule debated

GAA president Liam O’Neill accepts there are strong grounds to change hurling’s penalty rule — but stresses the debate to alter it had begun long before two more were saved in Sunday’s All-Ireland final.

Not since Joe Canning in the June 22 Leinster semi-final with Galway has a goal come from a penalty in the championship and the conversion rate is now close to 20%.

Those statistics are largely down to a new interpretation of the penalty rule, which states it must be struck before or on the 20m line.