Aspiring GAA players will soon be able to learn the skills of football, hurling and camogie from legends of both codes.

Thanks to the wonders of technology, the skills of the games are all being digitised, meaning they can be turned around and viewed from every angle in glorious 3D by people accessing a website which is being created as part of a €2 million EU-funded project to preserve and protect traditional European sports such as Gaelic games and the Basque handball game called Pelota.

According to a report in the Irish Examiner, the GAA, DCU and the Insight Centre for Data Analytics are three of the eight partners from five countries working on the three-year RePlay project.

This week, four well-known GAA players - Limerick hurler Gavin O'Mahony, Monaghan ladies footballer Caoimhe Mohan, Limerick camogie player Caoimhe Costelloe and Meath footballer Mickey Newman - are visiting the Audiomotion studios in Oxford where their every move will be captured by Vicom technologies.

The players are wearing skin-tight clothing with infra-red reflectors and every movement is caught by about 20 infra-red cameras. The next stage of the project will see the moves and skills of GAA legends such as Christy Ring and Paidi O Se being mapped by using archives footage.

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