Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise an issue that has been on the airwaves in recent days, namely, GAAGO and the arrangement between the GAA and RTÉ that sets up a paywall for genuine fans. This weekend it was fans of hurling in a match between Limerick and the Cathaoirleach’s county of Cork. I listened with some interest to what the president of the GAA had to say yesterday. I was taken by his robustness, which at times veered into arrogance and certainly did not reflect the views of the genuine GAA volunteers who I know and deal with every day of the week. It may have just been the studio environment or the way the interview went, but he seemed to get quite political in response to the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste. I get that, but he also sounded like a Sinn Féin Opposition spokesperson in the Dáil saying that raising the issue was perhaps a hot political debate because there was a politician-----