GAA Go

First time trying to use the app, won't open, stuck on home page, im shocked. NOT.

Working fine for me

Made the mistake of pausing the first half for 5 minutes, screen kept freaking out was unwatchable.

Liam Aherne

https://twitter.com/laherne84

Yes Liam is excellent on commentary, maybe been harsh but Dave seems to more of a soccer and rugby commentator who dabbles in GAA.

If you are stealing their product then I'm sure that they are not concerned about your opinion.

the comentators are good it was the co commentator that was awful liam aherne and dave mcintyre are the best in the buisness

Fair play to Donal Og for pointing out the obvious.

But with the evolution of Now TV they could.

You can get Sky sports for €10 a month on a Now TV offer.

hang on, Donal og was on telly saying it was full of Hurling that everyone wanted to see

It cant be both

7 hurling of 58 or 12% - mostly Munster games that people will actually want to watch

31 Football games of 174 or 18%

So you could argue they show more football than hurling but why do Westmeath and Wexford hurlers not feature but Clare feature 3 times, Tipperary twice etc etc?

It's 3 million Euro. I can only give the initials of who is getting it. JM and TR.

What do you mean who is getting paid? RTE nor the GAA are private business entities

Virgin Media are full of crap. Their cable division have sabotaged BBC 2 NI denying viewers several important football games that were shown on that channel and as noted above, they deny all their Saorview viewers a HD service.

There is a a lot of hype here, with pointless comment about government funding etc. If the GAA got government funding it was not to put on free TV but to train youths and the like. Similarly the licence fee has not gone up for donkey's, and RTÉ never showed more games than they do now, there just are more games now.

Not having it set up for a smart TV or games console/virgin box app is annoying for watching on tv especially if you don't own a Chromecast - rigmarole of connecting the laptop to the TV is annoying.

The two euro a game argument is somewhat bogus to be fair - cavan v laois and Meath v Leitrim for example doesn't exactly whet the appetite for the neutral in the season pass. Appreciate though the effort that goes into broadcasts and there will be cross subsidization but realistically it's closer to a fiver a game for the games you'd realistically watch - still not bad to be fair.

The "conflict of interest" issue will rumble on - how is it decided what games are shown on GAA go? The fact the hurling that was shown so far on RTE hasn't been great and the games behind the paywall were top notch is likely fuelling the discontent. The two football games shown at the weekend didn't help matters either - "showing pointless turkey shoot football matches when there's good honest hurling men frozen out waiting for their stream to buffer in "insert hurling heartland here" type of discontent. The GAA really doesn't do itself any favours at times.

Is there a valid reason why Virgin weren't offered the opportunity to bid for a package? In essence, RTE have taken licence payers money, to pay the gaa for access to games which they then charge for and give the GAA a further cut. If the GAA get 50%, what are they getting a cut of? The revenue/subs? The profit after paying the broadcast costs? Does the GAA get a cut of the advertising revenue on the online platform? I do think there will be questions asked that a public service broadcaster (with all the political ramifications that go with that) is being used as a conduit for pay per view to drive revenue for a sporting organisation.

If Sky are paying for the rights, it's to all intents and purposes "external money" whereas when it's RTE it has the perception that it's taxpayers money and taxpayers again are paying on top to watch what the licence fee has funded. If the defence is "the games wouldn't be shown at all" how hard did the GAA try to prove this? The virgin statement (whether they had any intent on bidding at all) would cast some doubt on the bone fides of Croke Park. Just all looks a bit murky