Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU

2:00 pm

Mr. Páraic Duffy:

It did but I am not sure what the take-up was. It did at the time. I want to go back to the first point. It is not just about the finance. I made this point when I responded to Deputy Troy's query. Three years ago, when we made the first arrangement with Sky it was part of an arrangement to try to have our games broadcast all over the world. That was successful. We have achieved that through Sky in Britain in particular, which I believe has been terrific for the diaspora over there, and also through GAAGO. This time around we want to continue that, which we have done. It is about finance also but it is not just about finance. Consider Senator O'Mahony's point about Mayo. Sky take 14 games, eight of which are qualifier games. It happened that last year, because Mayo lost to Galway in the first round, it was in the qualifiers the whole way through which was a bit unusual. I understand, however, why people in Mayo would feel that all their games were on - it was because they came through the qualifiers. It was just bad luck in the number of games but the point to remember is-----

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