Noel O’Donoghue Q&A: ‘I’ll advise them to look upon HawkEye as a friend’

Noel O’Donoghue, from the Cuala club in Dublin, enjoyed a stellar refereeing career that spanned over 30 years, taking charge of the 1980 and 1982 All-Ireland SHC finals in that time. Today, the 76-year-old will operate the HawkEye score detection technology when Tipperary and Kilkenny lock horns at GAA HQ...

HawkEye’s Point Detection System is a camera based system that assists officials when awarding points scored between the posts, via an audio signal relayed to the referee within seconds of the sliotar crossing the line.

Hawk-Eye provides real-time imagery on the stadium’s big screen of a ball’s trajectory over the posts to remove any ambiguity over whether a point was scored or missed.