No decision made on Hawk-Eye for All-Ireland final

The system came under fire in last weekend’s All-Ireland football finals.

There has been no decision on the use of Hawk-Eye for this weekends All-Ireland hurling final it has been confirmed.

The system came under fire over the weekend during the All-Ireland football semi final between Derry and Galway as Shane Walsh’s ‘45 was ruled wide despite clearly sailing over the bar. 

Galway were subsequently awarded the point with Hawk-Eye stood down for the second half of the game. 

It wasn’t in operation for the second semi final the following day and no decision has been made whether it will be in use for the clash of Kilkenny and Limerick on Sunday. 

The GAA have received a full report from the game between Derry and Galway and will make a decision later in the week.

“The GAA can confirm that a full report into the issues relating to problems with the score detection technology in use in Croke Park last weekend has been received from Hawk-Eye.

“A combination of unrelated issues, including minor hardware failures, led to an erroneous finding for a score towards the end of the first half of the first GAA Football semi-final, which was promptly queried by match officials who subsequently took the decision to award the score.

“Full end to end testing of the system will take place this week, after which a final decision will be made as to the deployment of the system for Sunday’s GAA Hurling Final.

“Hawk-Eye have also confirmed that there were no historical issues with the system and that the problems experienced relate to last Saturday only and specifically to the Hill 16 end goal for that specific moment in time.

“The GAA is to undertake a full review of its own protocols relating to when and how the system should be stood down if similar challenges are to arise in the future.”

Limerick have had previous issues with Hawk-Eye, Barry Nash controversially having a point ruled out in the 2013 All-Ireland semi final.