GAA president Liam O'Neill says the black card would be as applicable in hurling as football.

The third card will be introduced to gaelic football on the first of next month and O'Neill feels it can also be used successfully in the small ball code:

"I'd love to see it come into hurling, yeah, and I don't fear it coming into hurling," he comments.

"I don't see why we should allow people to deliberately pull down in hurling either or deliberately body collide or deliberately trip, so I would see them coming in for all.

"I'm not quite sure of the pace of it. I wish counties and clubs would see the benefit of it themselves but I don't mind that a committee we picked for football gets it done because they couldn't get it done the last time because hurling said no when the vote came.

"The previous time when the vote came, hurling said 'no'. The stronger hurling counties came together and it was beaten in 2009, so I was happy to go the football route on it with a view to getting it started." Tweet

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