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

Okay. Moving back to sports in this country more generally, we have been dealing with different bodies and the communication of their messages. For sports bodies, TV money drives a lot of this. In recent years, the GAA has come in for exceptional criticism, unjustified to my mind, for its relationship with Sky; other pillar sports did not come in for such criticism and escaped it. It was as if somebody had ownership over the GAA. Dr. May touched on online viewing. Does she feel this is where we will end up going and people will put sporting events behind paywalls online? We see that happening already.

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