GAA doing a deal with SkySports

[Hereiam]

Now your getting the idea Wobbler.

[johnneycool]

Sky's exclusive matches

Provincial Championship Games

June 7 – Kilkenny v Offaly LSHC

June 14 – Dublin v Wexford LSHC

June 21 – Sligo v Galway/London CSFC

June 28 – Armagh/Cavan v Down/Tyrone/Monaghan (USFC)

Qualifiers

July 5 – Game D qualifiers

July 12 – Game F Qualifiers

July 19 – Games I and J

July 26 – Games G and H

August 2 – Games K and L

All-Ireland Series

August 9 – 2 x Football Quarter-Finals


TBH there's no real biggies in there for Sky barring maybe the Ulster semi-final at a push, but I suppose who knew Kilkenny would have been going through the qualifier route last year.

[blewuporstuffed]

The Ulster semi will still beavailable free to air on the BBC though

[Captain Scarlet]

I love all this hard core fan talk. If you were a hard core fan then you'd have a season ticket and actually get up off your hole and go to games. If you just like to sit up and watch games of a Sunday on your armchair then surely you can wait for the Sunday Game.

If truth be told the GAA think there are too many games on free to air. They want people going to games, that's their MO.

[armaghniac]

The Ulster semi will still beavailable free to air on the BBC though

Is this confirmed for the BBC?

[ziggysego]

The winners and losers in this:

Irish living abroad - winners
Foreigners - winners
Those in Australia - winners
Anyone living in Ireland (i.e. those providing the matches everyone wants to see) - losers

Look, you boyos with sky or who are benefitting from this can call us criers or whatever all you want, bottom line is, the games should be free to air. I've lived and worked and played GAA in the states, I know the craic. I've done the same in the Warwickshire, again, I know the craic, and Australia. Those selling lotto, national draw tix, stewarding at club games should not have to pay above the TV license to watch their games. Would have been great for rte online to stream the games free to all our gaels abroad (this should have been done years ago). Sky are here to stay. Wont be long 'til they have steamrolled rte. Anyways, its done.

I don't have Sky Sports, but I think this is a great deal. So we have to pay to see a few extra games, so what? It's bringing the games to ex-pats in the UK and Australia, whilst RTE is opening up it's online streaming to places like America. This has to be a great thing and I can't understand why some are so dead against this. Yes, we're the ones living here, but we aren't the only Irish people on the planet.

Stop thinking about yourselves for once.

[AQMP]

Would there be anyone who would watch all the games on TV?
With club games and other commitments, I would be doing well to catch half of them on TV.

Exactly, technically I'm a loser here in that I get TV3 and don't have Sky and don't intend to "invest" in it.  Look like I'll miss out on the minor finals??  I usually go to the hurling final and will just have to live without the football final.  Other than that there's little effect on me.

[AZOffaly]

Sky's exclusive matches

Provincial Championship Games

June 7 – Kilkenny v Offaly LSHC

June 14 – Dublin v Wexford LSHC

June 21 – Sligo v Galway/London CSFC

June 28 – Armagh/Cavan v Down/Tyrone/Monaghan (USFC)

Qualifiers

July 5 – Game D qualifiers

July 12 – Game F Qualifiers

July 19 – Games I and J

July 26 – Games G and H

August 2 – Games K and L

All-Ireland Series

August 9 – 2 x Football Quarter-Finals


TBH there's no real biggies in there for Sky barring maybe the Ulster semi-final at a push, but I suppose who knew Kilkenny would have been going through the qualifier route last year.

Holy good Jaysus.  I think Offaly were involved in some other televisual 'first', but to be the first game on Sky is brutal. Against Kilkenny!!!

[Tubberman]

Would there be anyone who would watch all the games on TV?
With club games and other commitments, I would be doing well to catch half of them on TV.

Exactly, technically I'm a loser here in that I get TV3 and don't have Sky and don't intend to "invest" in it.  Look like I'll miss out on the minor finals??  I usually go to the hurling final and will just have to live without the football final.  Other than that there's little effect on me.

Minor finals will be shown on TG4

[AZOffaly]

I love all this hard core fan talk. If you were a hard core fan then you'd have a season ticket and actually get up off your hole and go to games. If you just like to sit up and watch games of a Sunday on your armchair then surely you can wait for the Sunday Game.

If truth be told the GAA think there are too many games on free to air. They want people going to games, that's their MO.

Every game that's ever on? Including those not featuring your county?

[Stall the Bailer]

I love all this hard core fan talk. If you were a hard core fan then you'd have a season ticket and actually get up off your hole and go to games. If you just like to sit up and watch games of a Sunday on your armchair then surely you can wait for the Sunday Game.

If truth be told the GAA think there are too many games on free to air. They want people going to games, that's their MO.

Every game that's ever on? Including those not featuring your county?

When your county isn't playing there will a club game on locally for you to go to.

[AZOffaly]

This is on the Sky website. Maybe an option for people who don't want to fork out the money for a full sky subscription?

GAA fans with a Sky Sports subscription can watch live on TV, online and on mobile and tablet devices via Sky Go or the award-winning Sky Sports for iPad app, which are both free for subscribers to download at no extra cost. Non-subscribers can also watch these games on mobile, which is a first in Ireland, by downloading the Sky Sports TV app for just £4.99/€5.99 a month.

[AQMP]

The Ulster semi will still beavailable free to air on the BBC though

Is this confirmed for the BBC?

I understand that BBC NI will be showing all Ulster Championship games??

[BennyHarp]

I love all this hard core fan talk. If you were a hard core fan then you'd have a season ticket and actually get up off your hole and go to games. If you just like to sit up and watch games of a Sunday on your armchair then surely you can wait for the Sunday Game.

If truth be told the GAA think there are too many games on free to air. They want people going to games, that's their MO.

Every game that's ever on? Including those not featuring your county?

Do you get time to watch every game thats on - even those not featuring your own county?

The first gaelic football match on Sky will be Sligo V Galway (or London) - this will have the neutrals all over britain drooling from the off!

[AZOffaly]

This is on the Sky website. Maybe an option for people who don't want to fork out the money for a full sky subscription?

GAA fans with a Sky Sports subscription can watch live on TV, online and on mobile and tablet devices via Sky Go or the award-winning Sky Sports for iPad app, which are both free for subscribers to download at no extra cost. Non-subscribers can also watch these games on mobile, which is a first in Ireland, by downloading the Sky Sports TV app for just £4.99/€5.99 a month.

So, a tenner gets you all Sky matches.

Yep, looks like it. Well, maybe £15. June, July, August.