Noel Grealish (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

With Galway's great win over Dublin last Saturday, I received a huge number of phone calls, some before and many more after the match, from people who were very aggravated that they could not watch the two championship matches on Saturday afternoon, Roscommon versus Armagh and Galway versus Dublin. Many of the people who contacted me are the people who built the GAA, former players and officers of the clubs who gave their time and commitment to the GAA in years gone by. Many people look forward to sitting down at the weekend and watching the GAA championship. A lot of them are pensioners who have no access to Wi-Fi and cannot afford to pay for it, so they do not have access to GAAGO. They simply do not have the expertise or the resources to avail of, and keep paying for, the GAA championship and to travel to Croke Park on a Saturday for 6.15 p.m. Will the Taoiseach meet the president and the director general of the GAA and find a solution so that all championship matches are aired for free on our national airwaves?

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