The project to standardise sliotars is nearly 20 years old. At Thursday’s launch of the smart sliotar, which is the culmination of that work, GAA president Larry McCarthy acknowledged the role played in the long evolution of the project by Pat Daly, the association’s director of games development and research, and Kieran Moran, professor of biomechanics at DCU.
Both were appointed to the sliotar work group, chaired by Kilkenny’s Ned Quinn, which McCarthy appointed last year on taking office.
The microchipped ball is to facilitate this standardisation by making official sliotars easily verified by a mobile phone app. Ac …
- March 11, 2022
