Páraic Duffy: Video replays would ‘totally distort’ GAA

GAA director general Páraic Duffy has taken an opposing stance to referees on the use of live video replays being used in games.

Last December, a seminar of national referees endorsed the introduction of TV match officials to assist them in making contentious decisions. However, a number of Croke Park officials are known to be against the idea, and Duffy has thrown his weight behind the case against technology.

“I heard this being argued, I think by Joe Brolly last weekend. I watch an awful lot of sport, I watch rugby and American football. They go back to these people to check angles and where does it end? This was a penalty incident — do you show videos again for other fouls further out the field, do you do it in sendings off? Where does it end?