All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2023 ( Munster And Leinster Championships,Liam McCarthy Cup)

Apparently, officials from the two provincial councils have agreed that from 2024 for a trial period of two years one of the deciders will be staged on a Saturday evening and the other taking place the following afternoon.

Both of this year’s provincial finals are scheduled to take place on the same afternoon, Sunday June 11. It's an ongoing issue.

Disaster

Every pub in Ireland definitely don't have Sky Sports

I saw Fintan O'Toole mention that the GAA Go app now works natively on the newer Chromecasts that come with a remote so that's a big improvement in terms of ease of access. No messing around with casting.

I think you're right that the overall point of having more Munster championship hurling games on TV would be good, because they're often (certainly not always) great games to watch, is very valid.

I didn't agree with almost any of the reasons they put forward for this being so imperative. There aren't many lads in Leitrim and Donegal who would have decided to give hurling a go because they saw a provincial game between Tipperary and Cork. If it took seeing inter-county games on television for people to be into hurling, the sport would have died out decades ago (and being on television certainly hasn't helped Gaelic Football take off in Kilkenny). The clubs is where hurling can be best promoted, but Donal Og is very much against that side of things.

Maybe something needs to be looked at in terms of which games are shown (just bad luck that Cork/Waterford the previous weekend was a dud), and especially with football provincials being almost meaningless now they could probably focus more on hurling provincial matches early in the season for television.

But freaking out about hurling losing out to gaelic football, rugby and soccer because a few matches weren't free-to-air on Irish television (as has been the case forever) is way over the top. And bringing the Tailteann Cup into things was pure nonsense. The scenes in Westmeath alone after the win last year showed the competition was worth the coverage, and the Joe MacDonagh final was on television too.

They don't in plenty of rural areas, before COVID all the pubs in villages around me got a visit from an undercover guy who observed sky being shown in pub, they then got correspondence that they were only household sky accounts & to show sky in pub they should have a different pub account or legal action would be taken, of course the pub license costs thousands more than a household one, so all the pubs got rid of sky as they couldn't afford the crazy extra cost & it's a large number of pubs in more rural areas.

Anyway I'm going off topic I do agree with your broad point on GAA Go

I agree with Keher that in no way should the Munster and Leinster hurling finals be on the same day. Most if not all woukd be interested in seeing both and if you are going to one of the games you can't even see the other on tv as they are so close starting times.

I wouldn't even have them on the same weekend. Give maximum exposure to one final for one whole week (build up, match and then review) and the same the following week for the other final.

Throwing them on the same day is ridiculous.