Unlike their camogie counterparts, ladies football chiefs have decided against using Hawk-Eye in this Sunday's TG4 All-Ireland ladies football finals at Croke Park.

Speaking yesterday at the launch of the football finals, LGFA President Marie Hickey explained: "We did discuss it. But we decided not to go with it this year, we're going to look at it again for next year.

"At the time, when we looked at it, we realised that there had to be a recalibration for the size of our ball and that would actually have taken longer than the time-frame that we had.

"There's a cost factor as well, obviously, so we'll look at it again next year."

Hickey has called on their members to turn out in force for this weekend's senior meeting of Cork and Dublin.

"I've often said that women are our own worst enemies when it comes to women's sport.

"What I mean by that is that there is a lot of support for men's codes across the board. But we don't really get the membership out (for ladies football).

"We have enough members to fill Croke Park twice over in this country alone. So if even half of our membership turned out, then obviously we'd have a full stadium.

"But for some reason, it just doesn't always happen. We're trying to figure out why that is and what we can do to change it but it is definitely a factor.

"We do need our own members supporting our own code and while it's improving, it certainly has a long way to go."

Also on Sunday, Kildare will play Waterford in the All-Ireland intermediate final while Louth take on Scotland in the junior decider.

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