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My own opinion, but its fairly naiive and arrogant of Jarlath Burns if he thinks he can smack down the leader of the government in this way; particularly when the GAA has been such a beneficiary of state funding.

Similarly, he was fairly derogatory about Sean Cavanagh, something along the lines of 'you'd think he would he'd know this stuff as an accountant' - to which he got truly owned by Cavanagh who referenced that yes he had looked at the GAA's accounts and spoke about what he saw.

He's really fanned the flames here.

You can cast it from your phone to your TV,you could even use a HDMI cable from you laptop.

I haven't done this myself but I imagine you can download the app on your smart TV which would probably be the best.

The app is available on most tv's from the last few years and its also on Amazon Firesticks and Apple TV.

Correct, I usually judge the Tainiste as a safe pair of hands but on this occasion because Cork were involved

he seemed he had to put his oar in…. pure electioneering …lets call a spade a spade.

Burns was excellent on the CB show ..said it as it is, and came across very well.

How do some people think a practically voluntary organisation like the GAA can exist when they plough 85%

of revenue back into facilities and clubs.

I realise they get Govt support, and rightly so, but they save the Govt far more than they get.

Some folk don't seem or want to understand these issues.

I'm grand as I have it all on the fire stick but have heard from friends and family over The last few weeks when they have bought games that they had no way to cast it onto their TV and had to watch the games On their phone.

I've checked my TV and the app is not there and there's no Chromecast built-in either. So I'm presuming you need a relatively new TV for this to work.

Currys has the HD Chromecast with Google TV OS at 40 euro. Released 2022. Decent price.

https://www.currys.ie/products/google-chromecast-hd-with-google-tv-snow-10242833.html

NOTE: Its heavily rumoured Google will be launching a new version of their 4k Chromecast at their 2024 Google I/O showcase tonight at 6pm. It's nearly 4 years old now so definitely worth waiting to see if they release a higher spec device if you want 4k.

15 years ago RTE would have shown all four munster hurling games. They're showing 6 or 7 this year. This idea that these games would have been shown in the past is what is BS

Not true, the cork/limerick game being behind a paywall was in the news a lot in the lead up to the game.

I would have no problem with GAA Go if it was actually used as they say it is i.e. to show games that would never have been seen before, but this is clearly not the case.

You are correct!
You see, unfortunately some blimps cannot see the big picture.

They cannot get their heads around an organisation like the GAA needing income to keep stadia, centres of excellence, referees, pitches , facilities, ground staff ,security, players all ‘taken care of’without some kind of supplementary source based on the popularity of their game.

If these folk want to see a game so badly pay for the fcukker, it’s not mad money?..or go to it .

Complete nothingburger here… time to tell these gloamers to take a hike

Why shouldn't Burns speak the truth? The money for given for particular purposes, not free streaming and the government will not give RTÉ the money to buy these rights so that there is no loss of revenue to the GAA.

As for Cavanagh, he is an embarrassment. The GAA has some money in the kitty to be sure, but with stadium projects underway in Kildare, Louth and Meath and a very large bill incoming for Casement park they hardly have a surplus of money. It is an easy quip to say "the GAA has millions" but Cavanagh knows perfectly well that the costs are in the millions also.

This is nothing to do with 'speaking the truth'; its to do with sneering at people and making derogatory comments "there must be an election coming up".

As for 'some money in the kitty'…..€150mn is more than 'some money in the kitty'.

Again - the profit share at GAAGO last year was €250,000 - you wont even build the stadium jacks for that.

15 years ago wasn't that much different to today.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2010/0507/264802-sundaygame/

40 live matches in 2010.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2024/03/29/rte-announce-schedule-of-live-gaa-matches-for-next-five-months/

I make it 37 live men's matches in 2024. When you consider that there will be coverage of 9 camogie matches, which weren't covered in 2010, that will be an increase over 2010.

The annual exaggeration of the good old days of all matches on free tv continues.

There's lot of hurling being show, in fact every hurling game is being shown. The issue is that it's being shown on a subscription streaming service, not that it's not being shown

One is RTE giving money and the other is RTE making money.

They obviously made a decision on how much they could afford to buy and at what value and decided 1 package free to air was all that was worth it but they could do more but through a profit making service.

I'm not a big fan of Gaago or the old Sky deal but I hate it a lot less than I hate the "won't somebody think of the old people/volunteers/crap with computers people" crowd. The fact that politicians are getting involved is just pathetic.

Yes, it's on GAA Go

https://www.gaago.ie/fixture/PC12-24-H-LRR5

I would think that RTE will make a lot of money from the broadcast of GAA games through advertising revenue. If they can't they are doing something wrong

Politicians are only getting involved because there are European, Local and Mayoral elections around the corner. There's also tax money being paid to the GAA so questionable if GAA-Go should be a free or subscription service from that point of view. That gives them a platform but they said very little last year by comparison

This is nonsense. Ulster football can pay its own way, if any of the Munster money makes its way to the northern half of the country it is probably to support hurling there and that is appropriate.

Politicians are getting involved because of the election and it is not insulting to say so. It would be much more insulting to say that politicians couldn't work out the numbers for themselves and so they are just stupid.

Absolutely disgraceful to call for the government to pull funding for a sport with wide ranging grassroots and underage participation because a few lads can't or won't pay to stream something.

If that happens the GAA should return fire and cancel all games and cul camps for the summer. Like to see all these Billy big balls politicians try get re-elected if all the work the GAA does in the community for them gets cancelled.

Not in the European cup away games.

For plenty of years all European cup games were PPV.

So what? The money is needed for stadia undergoing work right now, which might be Louth or Kildare. Cork and Limerick do not need a new stadium.