The GAA has received a full report from Hawkeye. It comes after issues emerged with the technology during last Saturday's All-Ireland football semi-final between Galway and Derry. In a statement the association confirmed that there were no historical issues with the score detection system and the problem only related to Saturdays encounter and specifically the Hill 16 goal. Shane Walsh's 45 had went between the posts and was correctly signalled a point by the umpires, however Hawkeye alerted the referee to check the score and subsequently put it down as a wide.
A decision on whither the system will be in use for All Ireland Hurling final on Sunday will be made later this week.
GAA Statement
Hawk-Eye update
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.
