{"id":408888,"date":"2026-04-20T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408888\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:24:08","slug":"gaa-explains-hawk-eye-problem-during-tipperary-v-cork-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408888\/","title":{"rendered":"GAA explains Hawk-Eye problem during Tipperary v Cork clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An imagery issue was the reason behind Hawk-Eye\u2019s extended delay communicating a Cork wide in  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41830331.html\">Thurles on Sunday<\/a>, the GAA has explained.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Se\u00e1n Stack had been informed by the score detection official Dickie Murphy less than 30 seconds after Darragh Fitzgibbon\u2019s effort in the eighth minute that it had gone wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Between the Cork captain\u2019s strike and the game restarting, the process to communicate that the ball had not gone between the posts took 99 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Stack had waited for the screen to display the decision to the stadium but only a graphic of the field without a shot trajectory appeared, while no \u201cT\u00e1\u201d or \u201cN\u00edl\u201d followed it. Eventually, Stack relayed a message to his umpire to signal for a wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe delay was more to do with the physical video output of the decision on the screen,\u201d said the GAA\u2019s national games administration manager Bernard Smith.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe answer was given inside 30 seconds so that was quick enough. Dickie Murphy was able to communicate that to referee Se\u00e1n Stack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cGiven the number of games played in Thurles, it is value for money for the Association. There are costs involved in the equipment used in both Thurles and Croke Park and both are of a high standard and reliable. There was no issue with the software, just the output.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The slowness of the technology in Thurles, which was installed there 10 years ago, has been a bugbear of supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Speaking on the  Irish Examiner hurling podcast on Monday, presenter and columnist  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41830631.html\">Anthony Daly said<\/a> \u201cyou are better off not having it\u201d, while former Tipperary goalkeeper and manager Ken Hogan said people grimace when it is called on in FBD Semple Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It has been suggested before that difficulties in ascertaining triangulation between Thurles\u2019 Kinane and Ryan Stands, which are not the same shape, has led to the delays in Hawk-Eye confirming points and wides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An imagery issue was the reason behind Hawk-Eye\u2019s extended delay communicating a Cork wide in Thurles on Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177329,1965,72371,5582,1964,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-408888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-championship-2026","9":"tag-hurling","10":"tag-munster-gaa","11":"tag-tipperary-gaa","12":"tag-cork-gaa","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}