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And the desire to blame RTE for everything.

Here's an example of how that one would work:

Consider a hardcore and dedicated GAA person who puts in many hours each week for club and/or county as player, coach or administrator. They look at the fixtures before booking a holiday at all, and choose a week when their own county won't be playing, so that they can actually attend all their own county's matches. While abroad, they'd like to see some of the other games that are actually taking place that weekend. They'd have to pay to do so.

Yet some yahoo sitting at home, who never gets off his arse to actually go to a match and who wouldn't even buy a club lotto ticket, gets to watch every match for free.

Not such a good idea, is it?

There is also an obsession with the Munster hurling championship mainly from Munster hurling fans.

They think it's the only game in town, where infact football nationally is far more popular.

So as soon as one of these vaunted Munster hurling games has to go on GAA Go we hear all about it.

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Point of contention it seems…

I'll send you the YouTube link via PM.

Why should that be the case?

If a Boxing match/UFC event etc. is on PPV and you go to it, you don't get to watch it for free in full after. That's an odd one to suggest.

He said no such thing as well you know, he was talking about the need to maximise commercial revenue, GAAGo being one of these streams and mentioned the numerous infrastructure projects that needed to be financed. Also i would have thought Antrim is a fairly hurling focused county?

Thanks again

GAA president Jarlath Burns has said that he is "very surprised" by criticism of the GAAGO service from the Government, adding that "you would almost think there was an election coming up."

As far as I know there is elections coming up soon haha!

RTÉ was contractually obliged to show the two provincial football finals on Sunday, meaning the only outlet for the biggest hurling matches of the weekend was the GAAGO platform

Firstly, who draws up the contracts? Secondly why could RTE not show a game on Saturday as well as the 2 on Sunday? The GAA is a big and powerful organisation but surely even they can't make a Sunday game clash with a Saturday one!

His argument seems to be that RTE can't show every game and that's why we need GAA Go but RTE should have the capacity across the 2 TV channels I'd think. I wonder why it can't be shown free on GAA Go…

Well.

RTE do have the rights to a lot more than that if you include the games shown by their 50% owned subsidiary GaaGo….

They have the rights to show some games FTA and others through their PPV subsidiary which they are trying to make financially viable by showing major fixtures.

And when you say 'thats how the GAA structured the rights' - they did that in partnership with their 50% co-owner RTE.

Finally -I really dont see what the GAA gets from this….the profits are small ….Jarlath Burns is talking about the diaspora being able to watch games, but thats kind of incidental if thousands more at home dont get to watch them.

Why?

Has anyone got the discount code to get the GAAGo for €69?

Ah the tweet wasn’t showing up

Only the link

No he doesn’t have a point - it’s a moronic point

Not sure thats a good comaprison.

Cricket was in trouble well before 2005 I would wager.

No other sport gets a look in with Football in England.

GAA still rules the roost over here.

There's two important points to add; only certain games are behind the paywall - most games aren't. This is enabling games that otherwise would not be showing.

The other key point is the majority of people on the island do not want both of the main two channels wall to wall GAA over the weekend. Now I'm firmly in the camp that I'd love 5 hours of GAA on a Saturday and Sunday... But even in my own family I'm a minority. There's enough sport on RTE

The contract which runs from 2022 to 2027 commits RTE to also show at least 9 camogie games live on terrestrial Free to Air every year. The government is also making RTE add some other sporting events to the Free to Air list, including some other womens events.

The solution to the problem lies with our politicians. I like the very practical approach of the Mayor of Cork.

Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Frank O’Flynn initially raised the issue under Any Other Business at the meeting and the debate attracted much anger from the elected representatives.

During the course of an emotional address Mayor O’Flynn said people were outraged the game wasn’t broadcast live on RTÉ. “I never saw as much outrage or upset in all my years in Cork County Council that I got over the weekend over the lack of coverage of the greatest game in Ireland. It was one of the best spectacles of sport. There are numerous people out there who could not enjoy it because they couldn’t watch the game,” he said.

Mayor O’Flynn appealed for a letter to the sent to the Minister for Sport Catherine Martin, Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan and Taoiseach Simon Harris requesting that all GAA games be broadcast on the free to air channels. “Thousands of people in this country were denied the greatest spectacle that we ever had. I want this council to write to the Minister for Communications, the Minister for Sport and to go to the very top with the Taoiseach because he was in attendance.

That is pathetic levels of hyperbole.

Cork must be a great place altogether if this is the subject counsellors "never saw as much outrage or upset in all my years in Cork County Council"

Free flowing traffic, an abundance of social housing and no boarded up shops in this Eden that is Cork I assume.

You'd swear no one in Cork had an internet connection or the ability to use a payment card either the way he was going on.

To the lads using GAA GO are you watching the games on your phone or how do you get it to your tv?