GAA Go

There are more Munster hurling games this year than in most of those years.

Does gaago not carry the rte2 games as well? They tend to have the tg4 games on at the same time?

OK... Coat hanger into the TV so.

RTE 2 works for me here in iptv smarters

Theres now a native app for Samsung smart Tvs .

The initial startup after installation took a minute or more, no idea what was going on there.

Log in was straight forward. If you are logged in on your phone, you can enter a code off the Telly and then it "pairs" to your account and youre in in no time with no major messing about.

The user interface is a little different than the website but works well. The picture quality is no better than before, eg, super clear graphics and whatnot but not near as high res when theres action. Our internet is 100meg download with the new telly connected by 5ghz wifi so any issues arent on our side .

They've left it the exact same as last year, even after all the controversy! Incredible

Vast majority of the Munster hurling championship, majority of the football round robins, all 4 prelim quarter finals and 2 full quarter finals, once again not on TV.

Its an agreement between themselves and RTE, how on earth could the contract not be rewritten to allow more coverage after the scandal of last season. RTE said they'd show more if the agreement allowed it

And at the very least, if the amount of games couldn't be increased, surely the live games themselves could be chosen better. We're once again getting meaningless provincial championship football games on RTE 2 while two actual quarter finals, the 4th and 5th biggest games of the year, are back on this dodgy stream

My account says the subscription is paid on the page detailing the 2024 games, yet I didn't pay anything since April. Is that a glitch or what? Don't want to be forking out the extra tenner if they auto-renew at the 79

Am I dreaming reading this.

Tis crazy.

Worse if anything than last year.

We need to mobilise and protest next weekend and tell HQ where to stick this schedule.

GAA GO is a total and utter disaster for rural Ireland.

It's 12 euro with an added option of "buy 2, get a third game free" at some point later in the year. Fogarty tweeted it earlier

It's set up that you auto renew unless you elect otherwise. You can opt out by managing subscriptions

It's some cod to pick out 3/4 of Corks games and their meaningful football game in munster. They're the best supporters and it's only a cash grab. Add to that selecting the 2 Waterford home games which will be full capacity you'd think.

Personally I would still pay the 79 if the service was any way reliable but the games I saw last year I was fit to launch the phone at the wall with all the buffering! A shame because I never had an issue with LOI streaming so is perfectly capable of being properly run here.

I think RTE have all the provincial finals in both codes and the 4 football finals are all that weekend.

Possibly so, Sky had only 1 Munster hurling game in 22 Limerick v Waterford which at the time in fairness was 1st and 2nd favourites for the All Ireland.

How many of those was there last year?

Was looking at the GGAgo website....its a bit bare....maybe the admin is off work sick for an undefined amount of time!!

But on a serious note...

There is no company info, owners and/or directors, VAT number, basic About section etc.

No telephone number even.

The address is incomplete and without an Eircode (As below)!!

Is it on the RTE premises? What information do they need to provide legally or can they just keep it bare

If I sent them a mail would they have to give me any of these details?

GAAGO Media

Donnybrook

Dublin 4

Ireland.

Email: support@gaago.ie

Do people not understand the new condensed GAA calendar? RTE cannot show every game. They were always gonna show provisional finals, this is in the contract AFAIK. Munster hurling falls on the same weekend so the only option is to show it on GaaGo. If Sky were still in the game they'd have picked up this game also.

2 weeks ago their was fear in Munster that, that weekend of games in the hurling championship which clashed with the divisional finals was not going to be shown anywhere, imagine the outcry then?

The schedule is absoultely packed since the spilt season so something had to give.

It's part of the contract, RTE show X games per week. GaaGo show X games per week. The scheduling is the issue here with the Munster games - GAA want more games, and you need other platforms tgen to show them.

Yes, RTE News Now was used before when no other option was available but when GAAGo is now available, and for a bargain price too when purchasing a yearly sub. And RTE news now is broadcast in below standard Def quality and is awful for fast moving sports BTW.

People don't know how lucky we are with the amount of content we have access to over the last number of years and it's only getting bigger. Majority of county boards now have their games behind a paywall on clubber.ie and it is an excellent service. I was down in a neighbours house in the summer, he is 80+ and was watching clubber and casting from his phone to his TV. And he is in the sticks and his internet now is barely 8mbps. But his weekends now are wall to wall gaa coverage through, clubber, TG4 and RTE. He's never been as happy.

It's only 4 of the 10 MHC games on GAA Go from what I can see. So presumably RTE will show 4 or 5 also (6 may not be possible with last set of games simultaneous). Like it's not ideal but it's hardly a mass offload of games to PPV - it's an even split.

Could also argue that the games likely to be on RTE are the bigger games - e.g., Limerick v Clare, Limerick v Tipperary, Cork v Tipperary so they seem to have learned from last year.

If everyone paid the TV licence it still wouldn't have influenced the decision. Don't see how linking the licence fee to GAA matches on telly can be done

In that case shouldn't the number of games covered live increase along with the number of games when there had to be adjustments after sky pulling out, hypothetical example if RTE covered 30 live games out of 60 live games (50%) and now covered 30 of 100 shouldn't they renegotiate their deal to cover 50 of 100?

That's a slightly unusual way to charge isn't. Full wack but here's the 10er back..later in cash back to my debit card or in GAAGO credit...