Sir, – Surely a “black card” is in order for a cynical foul for Hawk-Eye’s explanation for what went wrong on Sunday. The settings, we were told, were for football.
First, what is the difference in a football or a slithor going over the bar? Second, the last time this system used was the previous Sunday when Cork and Dublin served up a top class hurling match. Were they also playing to the wrong setting?
Anyway, who is this fellow who must do the different settings? So that we can continue the time-honoured GAA tradition of abusing match officials, let us have his name. – Yours, etc,
FRANK BRENNAN,
Windsor Terrace, Dublin 8.
Sir, – Hawk-Eye? Och aye! – Yours, etc,
JOHN QUINN,
Stradbally North,
Clarinbridge, Co Galway.
Sir, – How is it that Croke Park, claimed to be among the most modern stadiums in the world, does not have one person who thinks on his feet on big match days? Last Sunday, when the powers-that-be there had a full quarter of an hour, at half-time in the minor game, to review and rectify the Hawk-Eye mistake, they did nothing.
Just as happened in 1998, when the referee blew the full-time whistle with some minutes to go in the Clare-Offaly All-Ireland semi-final. In response to the Offaly supporters’ sit-in on the pitch, the game was abandoned rather than finished. Clare effectively lost an All-Ireland as a result of Croke Park’s failure to intervene and correct an obvious error.
A more celebrated injustice was that visited on Louth in the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Final. Leaving the final decision on whether to replay the match to the Meath players was very unfair to both Meath and Louth.
It’s about time the GAA woke up and started to do something rather than opting out of these administrative decisions.
The young lads of Limerick and of Galway deserve better than this. Unless this game is replayed, Croke Park will have added another injustice to its already very bloated copybook. – Yours, etc,
DONAL LYNCH,
Belcotton,
Termonfeckin, Co Louth.