This weekend’s GAA Congress could call a halt to the opportunity for the GAA to negotiate media deals that reflect the modern age. It would be a backward step based on holding on to what has traditionally been the case rather than continuing to walk to the future.
It’s not so much whether it should be Sky or anybody else. It’s no reflection on RTE Sport who have and will continue to cover the most important moments of the Championship season.
It’s merely a marker for where the GAA sits in a rapidly changing world of broadcast coverage where the very definition of broadcast and ‘free to air’ is changing all the time.
On Friday we write an Opinion piece outlining the possible downstream consequences of closing the door and this was followed up by a robust debate between Rob Hartnett and Eugene Magee on the Last Word with Matt Cooper on Today FM. You can listen back to the exchange from 10:44 in the link below.
