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GAA GO Heavily Criticised By Politicians At Oireachtas Media Committee

Wednesday, 12 July 2023 16:42

The service has come under fire for placing games behind a paywall.

RTE's head of sport will tell the Oireachtas Media Committee that the number of GAA matches shown free-to-air has almost doubled since 2018.

GAAGO has been severely criticised by many politicians, many of whom want all championship games to be broadcast on television.

However, the GAA will say that those games being shown on GAAGO would have been on SKY tv or not shown at all.

Media Committee member and former Meath West TD, Senator Shane Cassells says he accepts that not all matches can be shown on TV, however he thinks the big matches should be:

The GAA says it'll make €4 million this year from its streaming service GAA Go.

Tom Ryan, Director General of the GAA, says most of the money it'll earn will be made from viewers here at home:

RTE and the GAA say the Central Competitions Control Committee decides when matches are played.

Declan McBennett adds matches for streaming service GAAGO are "absolutely not" cherry-picked.

Mr. McBennett outlined to Fine Gael TD Alan Dillon why the Kerry/Tyrone quarter final was behind a paywall:

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