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Replying To Cockney_Cat: "Wasn't there enough GAA action for you shown on RTE over the weekend? On Sunday alone, there was 9 hours of GAA sport shown on RTE1 and RTE2, most of it live action. Or do you want RTE to show wall-to-wall coverage of live football and hurling games, and sod all the other licence payers who have no interest in the sports. RTE's gets it's income from licence fees and advertising. This money (budgets) is allocated to various internal departments, news, drama, sport, etc. If they didn't change pay-per-view for extra GAA games, then them games would never be shown." You might have an argument were it not for the fact that Sponger is clearly talking about this weekend... 2 games on GAAGO both on Saturday. In fairness, RTE could easily have all Q-Finals on this weekend. Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1283 - 27/06/2023 11:36:02 2489941 Link
Replying To Ban: "I've been watching Tipp Cork & Limerick Clare hurling games live on rte for the last 25 years.. I'd hardly say they have all of a sudden become additional games! You talk about the 9 hours on Sunday as if rte are hero's to the gaa community. The countries interest in tcup semi finals is no more greater than that of the counties playing in them. Note the attendance.." And you could have watched 'Tipp Cork & Limerick Clare hurling games live on rte this year', what's your point? So, 9 hours on a Sunday is not enough for you? How many more hours do you want? There are far more inter-county games being played now, than there ever was. You can't expect RTE to show them all. Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2740 - 27/06/2023 11:36:18 2489942 Link
Replying To Seanfanbocht: "Apart from sick or elderly why do people who never go to a game expect all Co games to be on free to air TV? Gey out in the air and go to a few local club games. Warning!! Ye'll have to pay in to some of them." Proper attitude. You'd get sick of lazy people whinging that everything isn't handed to them on a plate for free in their bedroom/sitting room! Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15560 - 27/06/2023 11:44:34 2489952 Link
Replying To Cockney_Cat: "So where is the money going to come from to show these extra games? You do realise that the €160 licence fee is not solely for the benefit of GAA fans? And you have the gall to accuse me of 'horse **'." I do not care about anything else, I am only interested in seeing 4 quarter finals on free to air. If RTE think €160 is not enough, then they should either try and raise the fee or do a better job collecting it. Although after what has come out this week, would you be bothered paying it ? sponger (Wicklow)** - Posts: 2928 - 27/06/2023 11:55:22 2489959 Link
It's pretty clear that the split season and congestion is not to blame here. The dogs on the street know well that this is a money making machine. We pay licence fee, the taxpayers subsidise rte, we pay tv subscription, now they want us to pay again?? The organisation that is the Gaa is built from the ground up.. i.e. Volunteers. Let me tell you that those volunteers patients are running out and who'd blame them. RTE or the upper etilons in the GAA do not care tuppence about grassroots. Inatfullforward (Longford) - Posts: 111 - 27/06/2023 12:05:55 2489967 Link
It's pretty clear that the split season and congestion is not to blame here. The dogs on the street know well that this is a money making machine. We pay licence fee, the taxpayers subsidise rte, we pay tv subscription, now they want us to pay again?? The organisation that is the Gaa is built from the ground up.. i.e. Volunteers. Let me tell you that those volunteers patients are running out and who'd blame them. RTE or the upper etilons in the GAA do not care tuppence about grassroots. Inatfullforward (Longford) - Posts: 111 - 27/06/2023 12:06:44 2489969 Link
Replying To sponger: "I do not care about anything else, I am only interested in seeing 4 quarter finals on free to air. If RTE think €160 is not enough, then they should either try and raise the fee or do a better job collecting it. Although after what has come out this week, would you be bothered paying it ?" I'm sure if they try to raise the fee now it'll go down very well !! TobeaRossie (Roscommon) - Posts: 164 - 27/06/2023 12:09:20 2489972 Link
Replying To Seanfanbocht: "Apart from sick or elderly why do people who never go to a game expect all Co games to be on free to air TV? Gey out in the air and go to a few local club games. Warning!! Ye'll have to pay in to some of them." Very true, but you'll still get the same people arriving at club matches when the men on the gate have packed up. Regular as clockwork. Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2288 - 27/06/2023 12:10:09 2489974 Link
Replying To sponger: "I do not care about anything else, I am only interested in seeing 4 quarter finals on free to air. If RTE think €160 is not enough, then they should either try and raise the fee or do a better job collecting it. Although after what has come out this week, would you be bothered paying it ?" I think there should everyone should refuse to pay the licence fee now, they can't jail every one of us. I was just listening to Claire Byrne earlier as I was driving in, she had some woman on talking about the cost of buying healthy food etc instead of the processed stuff that's cheaper but worse for your health. I was just thinking how can Claire Byrne and her buddies sound so sincere and empathise with ordinary people scraping to make ends meet with the huge salaries they are on from RTE? These highly paid presenters are like the top politicians, they are not living in the real world. Also I agree the All Ireland quarter finals should not be behind a paywall, I suppose they need all the money they can get though to pay Larry McCarthy's huge salary and the rest of the suits in Croke Park, I keep saying it, great wee country we are in, grab all you can and fill your pockets. Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3175 - 27/06/2023 12:14:04 2489981 Link
The GAA are rolling in cash, RTE have money to throw around to presenters and people are here defending both............. Yet the older person who may be sick or disabled is repeatedly mocked and told to get someone to come & magic up a broadband connection, Smart TV & 12 euro a game....... Sign of the times I guess. slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 27/06/2023 12:34:17 2490002 Link
Replying To sponger: "I do not care about anything else, I am only interested in seeing 4 quarter finals on free to air. If RTE think €160 is not enough, then they should either try and raise the fee or do a better job collecting it. Although after what has come out this week, would you be bothered paying it ?" "I do not care about anything else..." You might as well have stopped there. Everything that follows is superfluous. Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2740 - 27/06/2023 12:52:08 2490024 Link
Replying To slayer: "The GAA are rolling in cash, RTE have money to throw around to presenters and people are here defending both............. Yet the older person who may be sick or disabled is repeatedly mocked and told to get someone to come & magic up a broadband connection, Smart TV & 12 euro a game....... Sign of the times I guess." Agree totally. Martin Brehony and Tommy Conlon took as low a cut as is humanely possibly to the very people you just mentioned in the indo a few weeks ago and they should d be held to account for such disregard for human beings. But it's not just old or sick or vulnerable people; I was in a pub about a month ago, 3 men between 30 and 50 and the publican and not one of us knew how to get Gaago. Its fine for people who are tech minded but none of us were. Its a money machine plain and simple and a national disgrace and by the way anyone suggests we follow what the bbc do well are we all sheep here??? Inatfullforward (Longford) - Posts: 111 - 27/06/2023 12:52:38 2490025 Link
Replying To slayer: "The GAA are rolling in cash, RTE have money to throw around to presenters and people are here defending both............. Yet the older person who may be sick or disabled is repeatedly mocked and told to get someone to come & magic up a broadband connection, Smart TV & 12 euro a game....... Sign of the times I guess." you dont need to magic up a smart tv or anything like that. KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3746 - 27/06/2023 12:58:22 2490030 Link
Replying To slayer: "The GAA are rolling in cash, RTE have money to throw around to presenters and people are here defending both............. Yet the older person who may be sick or disabled is repeatedly mocked and told to get someone to come & magic up a broadband connection, Smart TV & 12 euro a game....... Sign of the times I guess." Never has the nail met the head any better! Ban (Westmeath) - Posts: 1468 - 27/06/2023 13:34:22 2490051 Link
Replying To sponger: "I do not care about anything else, I am only interested in seeing 4 quarter finals on free to air. If RTE think €160 is not enough, then they should either try and raise the fee or do a better job collecting it. Although after what has come out this week, would you be bothered paying it ?" The 160 is just a drop in the ocean compared to the income from advertising Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15560 - 27/06/2023 14:37:52 2490088 Link
Replying To Inatfullforward: "Agree totally. Martin Brehony and Tommy Conlon took as low a cut as is humanely possibly to the very people you just mentioned in the indo a few weeks ago and they should d be held to account for such disregard for human beings. But it's not just old or sick or vulnerable people; I was in a pub about a month ago, 3 men between 30 and 50 and the publican and not one of us knew how to get Gaago. Its fine for people who are tech minded but none of us were. Its a money machine plain and simple and a national disgrace and by the way anyone suggests we follow what the bbc do well are we all sheep here???" If you know how to go onto a web forum.. register and sign up for this. then you are capable of registering for and watching gaa go. you sign up for gaa go with an email address, card details. pay for the game or games you want to watch create your account and watch the games. its not difficult KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3746 - 27/06/2023 14:57:42 2490098 Link
Replying To Viking66: "The 160 is just a drop in the ocean compared to the income from advertising" Nothing like an ould Barter Account. sponger (Wicklow) - Posts: 2928 - 27/06/2023 15:13:45 2490110 Link
Replying To Inatfullforward: "Agree totally. Martin Brehony and Tommy Conlon took as low a cut as is humanely possibly to the very people you just mentioned in the indo a few weeks ago and they should d be held to account for such disregard for human beings. But it's not just old or sick or vulnerable people; I was in a pub about a month ago, 3 men between 30 and 50 and the publican and not one of us knew how to get Gaago. Its fine for people who are tech minded but none of us were. Its a money machine plain and simple and a national disgrace and by the way anyone suggests we follow what the bbc do well are we all sheep here???" Frankly, I find it strange that three men younger than myself and a barman of indeterminate age were unable to figure out between them how to browse to a site and input a few details in order to stream a match. Even stranger if you were one of them. You're obviously computer-literate enough to know how to create an e-mail address, how to register on a site like this, how to log in whenever you want to, and how to post. I wouldn't have thought that creating an account on GAA GO and browsing to the match you want to watch would have been all that different. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2842 - 27/06/2023 15:14:28 2490112 Link
Replying To KillingFields: "you dont need to magic up a smart tv or anything like that." But they do need to magic up broadband to begin with! tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1487 - 27/06/2023 15:15:53 2490113 Link
Well one of the directors of GAA Go is now gone in disgrace, of the 2 main partners involved in this fiasco one is now under serious investigation for all sorts of dodgy practices and we have a President who takes the hump and walks away from interviewers whenever someone even mentions the words GAA GO. If i was an investigative journalist id be digging like mad into this and to be honest Larry Mc carthy has been possibly one of the worst presidents we have ever had so nothing would suprise me. tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1487 - 27/06/2023 15:20:22 2490115 Link