Liveline Thread 27/03/14 to date

snubbleste

"Dey lurve de national game, dey live for it"

ThisRegard

Ah the poor oul rural Oirish, they don't even have colour tvs or anything like that, is the impression I get anyway since the announcement yesterday.

SEPT 23 1989

ThisRegard

€97 per month ! No recession in his house Joe.

snubbleste

"Do you have Sky Sports"

snubbleste

€30pm = €360pa
That's far more than your property tax

BPKS

How will people without Sky survive without seeing a round 3 qualifier in the football between Cavan and Limerick on a Saturday evening during the summer when there is absolutely nothing else to do. No club games, no work on the farm, no work in hotels or restaurants to go to.

withless

Hopefully somebody will bring up the tv license.

"come on joe, drop it, drop it will yah"

bottlebrush

he heard about it on the news.
was he expecting a letter?

SEPT 23 1989

Sky Sports will drag the GAA coverage into the 20th century

ThisRegard

Yip, it's just like the Eurovision Contest.

BPKS

The first time ever the GAA has been compared to the Eurovision surely?

CountyHurler

This argument that "it's been free for years and people have been spoiled" really irks me... People pay their license fee to RTE who use some of that money to pay for the sports coverage AND the taxpayers pays for RTE's inevitable yearly losses (12million euro last time I think)

snubbleste

Just adopt a new watching sport..
like beach volleyball or coxless rowing

JM Skipton

Complete over reaction, and if everyone is so concerned about the old 97 year old not being able to see a game live well then help him out yourself

BPKS

Bags of chips and sandwiches for the children in the pub. WTF?

ThisRegard

We need an artists opinion on this, otherwise this discussion means nothing.

SEPT 23 1989

Will they have the rights for the hide behind the couch cringefest that is 'UP FOR THE MATCH"?

shockwave

ThisRegard wrote: »

We need an artists opinion on this, otherwise this discussion means nothing.

Or a Dublin taxi driver.

withless

Poor Joe. Poor RTE.

CountyHurler

The GAA should have included a clause in the deal to allow all GAA clubhouses to freely air the matches...

snubbleste

The Gah is the biggest amateur organisation in the world

bottlebrush

CountyHurler wrote: »

This argument that "it's been free for years and people have been spoiled" really irks me... People pay their license fee to RTE who use some of that money to pay for the sports coverage AND the taxpayers pays for RTE's inevitable yearly losses (12million euro last time I think)

well as long as i don't have to pay xtra
for watching fair city

JM Skipton

Do all these lads think RTE get to show coverage for free?

sudzs

"here here!"

Where where ??!!!!

snubbleste

Maybe it will be all men on the show today..for a change.

withless

Boggers wanna bog.

SEPT 23 1989

someone needs to come on and defend Sky

BPKS

TG4 have lost no rights you clown.

Duggie2012

are we still stuck in 1950's ireland. we must be the slowest country in the world to accept change. and yes i do have sky sports!!!

CountyHurler

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

someone needs to come on and defend Sky

George Hook would have come on but he's busy preparing for his new ambassadorial role..

snubbleste

€97pm for Sky Sports!!

Yakuza

The Grab All Association continue to earn their moniker.

ThisRegard

It has to be said, Dooblin Country Folk FM.

snubbleste

"Raidió Éireann"

Duggie2012

do people not know that you can actually get sky sports for a month. cancel it and re-order it for another month if you want. you dont have to get it for the year. jaysus.

curioser

The production team must have the phone lines burning up, trying to get a "spokesperson" from the GAA for Joe to fillet in the name of the plain people of Ireland.

BPKS

I was waiting for the "Wont somebody think of the children" argument.

snubbleste

Nobody is forced to watch a gaa match..thank god

JM Skipton

What is this guy talking about, huge money has gone in games promotion officers in the weaker counties:mad:

snubbleste

Lol @ Do you have Sky Sports to every caller

BPKS

Wont somebody think of the sick.

EDIT: There's no Sky in the prisons either. Wont somebody think of the prisoners.

sligojoek

ThisRegard wrote: »

We need an artists opinion on this, otherwise this discussion means nothing.

And a squeaky Dub and a token Brit.

snubbleste

restroom = toilet?

goose2005

if you want to see the match, maybe go to it? Might actually work out cheaper than buying SS

ThisRegard

The hospitals are just busting at the seams with all the injured sports men, god love them.

goose2005

snubbleste wrote: »

"Raidió Éireann"

Surely he means Radio Athlone?

mickydoomsux

Yakuza wrote: »

The Grab All Association continue to earn their moniker.

And yet people are blaming Sky for this situation.

The money hungry GAA really are Teflon. The amount of money that goes into the black hole that is that organisation is sxary and yet no one seems to care.

ThisRegard

I must have heard and read it wrong, but it sounds like all the rights are exclusive to Sky now ?

snubbleste

Skyping..