Carlow star Paul Coady has called on ‘The Sunday Game’ to “show respect” to so-called weaker hurling counties.

Coady took to social media before last Sunday night’s show bemoaning the lack of airtime given to the lesser lights. He also criticised RTÉ for showing extended highlights and analysis of games that had already been shown live earlier that day.

"The Sunday Game - I’ll tell ye now, a 20-minute analysis of a match already shown live is not needed tonight - followed by a 30-second voiceover of the Carlow/Antrim matches,” Coady said on X.

"Don’t have usual analysts preach the GAA need to grow the game and then not reward the counties efforts who have worked up to the top table.

"Show respect. Let the efforts of being here be rewarded, give critique analysis-like each other county at this level. Good and bad. Let kids of Antrim/CW see their own heroes on TV and not neighbouring counties wondering why are they better.

"The battle of growing the game does not lie with The Sunday Game, that is a GAA issue and something they are failing internally & externally, but from The Sunday Game the counties fighting and scraping to get here just ask their efforts to be respected like their peer counties.”

The @TheSundayGame - i’ll tell ye now, a 20 minute analysis of a match already shown live is not needed tonight-followed by a 30 second voiceover of the Carlow/Antrim matches. Don’t have usual analysts preach the Gaa need to grow the game and then not reward the counties efforts

— Paul Coady (@Paul_Coady10) April 28, 2024

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