TV Coverage

Facetious? Thats putting it mildly. You sound like the type of Gaa fanatic in the sixties whose love of the sport was based on disrespect for the other 'banned' games. I recall being chased off a public playing pitch (an historical 'townspark' granted by the Duke of Leinster), by the rabid trustee because were were playing soccer, and him screeching that only Gaelic could be played there, though the Gaa had no claim whatsoever to it. No surprise that there were two soccer teams registered in our town, while the out of town Gaa grounds were overgrown and derelict from the 50s.

And BTW, I'd say the Gaa has the monopoly on dead rubbers, ask any critic of the current structures.

Except rugby yesterday wasn't largely meaningless. Dropped out for 3 minutes. No they couldn't.

But The rugby will get far more viewers and they had the athletics on player/on line. If it wasn't an election weekend then likely it could have been shown on news channel

Player, LOL 😁

Munster won by was it 16 points? Of course they could have shown the race live, either drop out altogether or show a split screen, it's not beyond the wit of man to be honest. That they chose not to shows where their priorities lay, which is the point I'm making.

It was a poor decision.

If a gold hadn't of been won there would not have been a word about that race. I didn't see to many complaining anywhere beforehand that it wasn't been shown…

Apart from the Irish festival's, much horse racing is not broadcast on free to air. Golf is mostly on Sky sports. Saturday TG4 reserved for the 'pointless' Celtic Lea., sorry, URC semi finals. Here's hoping that an Irish speaking participant in the North Korean Tiddlywinks tournament doesn't win a gold medal halfway through the Munster match or we'll never hear the end of it.

Well one thing I'm thankfull to RTE for is giving the road to that ego maniac Joe Brolly. He has found his level now on backwoods podcasts, howling at the moon. I'm no Mickey Harte fan but the unhinged hatchet job Brolly is doing on him on whatever platforms he can is sorry and sad. Harte is a proven inter county manager, Brolly applied for that role at one of his clubs and wasn't trusted with it, enough said. He is still crying about getting the chop from RTE but it was the perfect public slapping the little pup needed.

I think the TG4 hurling commentary is far more professional than some of the RTE stuff.

Marty Morrissey should just call the games, not be talking nonsense for laughs with fans before or after games, and he needs to be more honest about the quality. Just describe what is happening, don't try to sell it.

TG4 commentary is just honest, they don't constantly tell you games or incidents that are unremarkable are go h-iontach.

Insincere commentary is a blight.

I disagree completely on Marty

He should not be calling the games, indeed talking nonsense to fools who will engage with him on the street is perfect for him, and I can choose not to watch it.

I have barely a word of Irish, but the Tg4 commentary still add more and makes more sense to Marty, who just rhymes off whatever club every player is from and calls it commentary.... 'great spirit'

The main commentators voice on TG4 is terrible, I get a headache listening to him.