GAA doing a deal with SkySports

[sheamy]

What about the people who do support their clubs? and do pay club memberships and more.

[Father Jack]

Get a dreambox and Sky can shove their subscriptions for watching GAA matches up their hole!!

You get the whole shooting gallery of channels and can watch sport all weekend until your hearts content!!

[J OGorman]

What about the people who do support their clubs? and do pay club memberships and more.

exactly. To spite these shameful rascals who watch the game yet dont suport club / county, alot of good gaels (without whom there wouldnt be this 'business' 'product' to whore off to Sky) will miss out on important championship matches

Is there a single man / woman on here who has access to TV3 and rte and doesnt subscribe to Sky Sports support this deal? 

[orangeman]

Whilst Paddy makes some very good points, he is too broad in some very important analysis :

Almost one-third of all Irish adults are members of a sports club and that one-third of that sports membership in Ireland is
accounted for by the GAA. Similarly, of the approximately 50% of all Irish adults who attended a sports
event in 2005, nearly two-thirds went to a GAA match.

A lot of people who watch TV do pay club memberships, buy lotto and do contribute something.

To say that the vast majority of television viewers contribute nothing is over the top and takes away from an otherwise decent article.

[J OGorman]

http://www.todayfm.com/player/podcasts/The_Ian_Dempsey_Breakfast_Show/The_Ian_Dempsey_Breakfast_Show/13260/2/Gift_Sky_Sports_GAA

:-)

[orangeman]

http://www.todayfm.com/player/podcasts/The_Ian_Dempsey_Breakfast_Show/The_Ian_Dempsey_Breakfast_Show/13260/2/Gift_Sky_Sports_GAA

:-)

Pure class. John Mullane - LOL

[Stall the Bailer]

What about the people who do support their clubs? and do pay club memberships and more.

exactly. To spite these shameful rascals who watch the game yet dont suport club / county, alot of good gaels (without whom there wouldnt be this 'business' 'product' to whore off to Sky) will miss out on important championship matches

Is there a single man / woman on here who has access to TV3 and rte and doesnt subscribe to Sky Sports support this deal? 

I don't have Sky and have access to the others.
I haven't seen the detail on deal yet so I will not be making a judgment.
However it will probably mean the same to me as the Setanta situation now. Where I go to a friend's house/pub to watch the game I want.
There will still be the Sunday game to catch the highlights (the importance of this will be increased somewhat. Hopefully RTE can improve their game time coverage here).

[Zulu]

What about the people who do support their clubs? and do pay club memberships and more.

exactly. To spite these shameful rascals who watch the game yet dont suport club / county, alot of good gaels (without whom there wouldnt be this 'business' 'product' to whore off to Sky) will miss out on important championship matches

Is there a single man / woman on here who has access to TV3 and rte and doesnt subscribe to Sky Sports support this deal?

Half these 'good gaels' wouldn't even watch many of the matches, or certainly wouldn't be upset if they missed them. What are the TV viewing numbers for most qualifiers?

[AZOffaly]

http://www.gaa.ie/gaa-news-and-videos/daily-news/1/0104141419-media-rights-press-release/

Boom goes the dynamite.

edit, great news for the Aussie ex-pats amongst us...

In addition to Sky Sports providing exclusive live coverage of 20 championship matches in Britain, in a major new departure, Channel 7 will show all 45 live championship games free to air in Australia.

[J OGorman]

What about the people who do support their clubs? and do pay club memberships and more.

exactly. To spite these shameful rascals who watch the game yet dont suport club / county, alot of good gaels (without whom there wouldnt be this 'business' 'product' to whore off to Sky) will miss out on important championship matches

Is there a single man / woman on here who has access to TV3 and rte and doesnt subscribe to Sky Sports support this deal?

Half these 'good gaels' wouldn't even watch many of the matches, or certainly wouldn't be upset if they missed them. What are the TV viewing numbers for most qualifiers?

how do you know this? jayzus

[Zulu]

Viewing figures. What are you basing your view that these good gaels will miss out on these games due to 'whoring' out the games? Have none of these gaels friends or a pub close by?

[orangeman]

It was never about money so you have to commend the GAA for doing this deal on behalf of Gaels all over the world.

Padraig Duffy

"Financial considerations were far from being the guiding criterion in our negotiations, and were of lesser importance than the issue of making our games more widely available to Irish people living abroad. In fact, the financial benefit to the GAA from the new broadcast contracts compared to the previous ones is marginal

[Zulu]

So do premier sports still get to show the RTE covered games in Britain?

[Bingo]

So do premier sports still get to show the RTE covered games in Britain?

RTE  - same package as before
SKY - TV3 package plus get to show the semi-finals and finals.
TG4 - same package as before
Setanta - same package as before
Chanel 7 Australia - show live championship games, 45 or so.
US - some live streaming online package.

No idea where premier sports fits in.

[easytiger95]

Not quite Bingo - the Sky package is a little bigger than TV3's used to be as there are more games being covered this year.