Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 February 2023

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Future of the Media Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Shane CassellsShane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I ask because in her opening statement, Dr. May spoke of Sport Ireland, as a statutory body, having a partnership with the national broadcaster. That broadcaster has an arrangement with the League of Ireland. If a top club like Shamrock Rovers, to fulfil the need for EU-27 involvement in this, was tempted by money, I would be interested, from the point of view of spectators and people who follow such elite clubs as Shamrock Rovers in Tallaght, in Sport Ireland’s view on that, given its stated natural synergy with the national broadcaster. What is its view on sports bodies here joining a breakaway league driven by television money?

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