The GAA's new Hawk-Eye point detection technology for both hurling and football was unveiled today at a media briefing in Croke Park. The technology will be trialed over a two year period and will only be used in Croke Park.
Hawk-Eye uses four high speed cameras at each end to locate the position of the ball up to 26 metres above the posts and 4 metres outside each post. Decisions should take just one second to be automated and will be able to be viewed on the big screen. An example of the process should work can be seen below.
The days of being able to make fun of American sports for having sponsors for everything could soon be over. Our first look at the new technology will come at the Leinster Football Championship quarter-final double header on June 1.
Hawk-Eye will not be used for goals. The GAA's head of media relations Alan Milton pointed out research by the association had revealed that Hawk-Eye technology would not have clarified any goal situation in the last three years.
Milton also said that Using Hawk-Eye for goals 'would have involved numerous more cameras, and of course futher financial investment. We would have found that very hard to stand over. It is not cheap technology in any shape or form.'
