Paraic Duffy is clearly not in favour of introducing television match officials to the GAA.

Television and radio analysts to a man seemed to concur last weekened that a TMO would cure all of gaelic football's ills after Aidan O'Shea duped referee Joe McQuillan with a blatant dive to earn Mayo a match-winning penalty against Fermanagh.

But GAA director-general Duffy reckons taking incidents upstairs on a regular basis would represent "an absolutely extreme solution":

"I heard this being argued, I think by Joe Brolly last weekend. I watch an awful lot of sport, I watch rugby and American football," the Monaghan man is quoted in The Irish Examiner.

"They go back to these people to check angles and where does it end? This was a penalty incident - do you show videos again for other fouls further out the field, do you do it in sending offs? Where does it end?

"I think it would completely and totally distort the game. I think that would be an absolutely extreme solution and I wouldn't favour that. In this case it's being advocated around a penalty, do you advocate it around a sending-off, is it a black card or is it not, is it a red or a yellow, is it inside the box or outside the box if it's a foul? Where does it end?

"Our games are games that flow, they are not stop-start games. I personally wouldn't be in favour of that."

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