Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

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

Future of Sports Broadcasting: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Declan McBennett:

It has increasingly become an issue. We bend over backwards in this regard. To give an example, a few weekends ago the Tailteann Cup semi-finals and the Galway-Mayo match were on and TG4 was broadcasting the Armagh-Mayo fixture at the same time. This is where the visibility of the women's game sometimes gets lost because everything is closed in. To return to the point I made earlier, the problem for GAAGO is one of access and we have openly acknowledged this. There are four issues around GAAGO. The GAA and RTÉ are aligned on two of these, while there is a degree of separation in respect of the other two. One of those four issues is the condensed nature of the GAA calendar.

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