Former GAA president Sean Kelly has urged the association to withhold any money it owes to HawkEye - following a clanger at Croke Park. Officials were left red-faced as they were forced to ditch the technology in Kerry's crunch All-Ireland semi-final with Dublin yesterday, after it ruled out a perfectly legitimate point for Galway in their last-four win over Derry on Saturday.
Mr Kelly, who served as president of the GAA from 2003 to 2006 and is now a Fine Gael MEP, said the latest mistake has thrown the system in doubt, reports the Irish Mirror. However he said he believed the HawkEye technology does work, as it’s proven to do so in other sports, adding: “It’s the human operators that are the problem.”
The Kerry-born MEP, who was in Croke Park yesterday to watch the Kingdom record a nail-biting one-point victory over the Dubs, said the GAA should not pay a penny for HawkEye until it’s operating properly. It currently costs the association up to €8,000 for each game that it is used at Croke Park.
