Chris Andrews (Dublin Bay South, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The GAA is a wonderful organisation. However, it seems to be drifting to a new corporate, profit-driven model in what is an amateur sport. Recently we have seen moves to a cashless ticketing system, moves to prevent clubs from displaying charity logos on their club jerseys and now we have the subscription model of viewing games. This all feeds into a view among many that the GAA is becoming gentrified, keeping the big classic hurling and football games behind a paywall. Government really cannot discuss this serious issue as if it was a spectator at one of the matches. Will we see any real action from Government to encourage the GAA to remove the paywall from big GAA matches?

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