Sitges - anywhere to watch gaa on TV?

gaillimh

Hi.
Myself and the girlfriend are heading to Sitges next month for 5 nights.
Our first day there coincides with an AI semi final that I'd like to see.
Has anyone that's been before - found a place that shows these games?
Can't seem to find anywhere so far online.

Thanks

Very Bored

gaillimh wrote: »

Hi.
Myself and the girlfriend are heading to Sitges next month for 5 nights.
Our first day there coincides with an AI semi final that I'd like to see.
Has anyone that's been before - found a place that shows these games?
Can't seem to find anywhere so far online.

Thanks

Paddy's Bar in Sitges is an Irish bar according to the internet. Seems to be quite big so probably has Sky so if it does you should be able to watch the match there on Premier Sports. Not quite sure what your girlfriend will think of it though lol... have a look at the photos on their Facebook page, first and especially second one https://www.facebook.com/paddys.sitges (though it does just appear to be a band that was playing one night).

Then these bars in Barcelona, you're only 35km away according to the internet, all show the GAA. http://www.barcelona.ie/ask-the-expert/pubs-in-barcelona-showing-gaa-matches/

Flaherty’s Irish Bar – Website
Michael Collins Pub – Website
Ryans Pub – Website
Scobies Irish Pub – Website

I've never been to Sitges but you're not exactly going to the Gobi Desert so I don't think you will have too much trouble even if you possibly have to make the trek into Barcelona.

munchkin_utd

to be honest, theres 2 types of Irish bar on the continent, the one that caters for ex-pats and has sky/ rte/ whatever contraptions are needed to get sports from UK and Ireland and ones that are filled with happy go lucky locals looking for a place with atmosphere that is really a music pub with shamrocks on the walls that sells Guinness (sometimes only from cans).

The ex-pat pub will enevitably be ran by someone from UK or Ireland, the other by locals.

The ex-pat pub always will have a website so that passing trade can find them and be alerted that they have Sky etc to show the GAA and premier league. The website/ web presence will have info in english for the paddy/ brit on tour.
The second (seemingly like the place in Sitges) has no proper website or need for one as its filled by regulars who know where the pub is and what it does or doesnt offer. And the little bit of stuff they have on facebook is in spanish (or is that catalan?)

The Barcelona GAA team sponsors are the Michael Colins pub, http://michaelcollinspubs.com/ , so they will be showing the game.
NOTE: their website is in english and uptodate with info on the GAA/ Soccer they are showing, which any pub making the effort to get and pay for a UK/IRL sky box and subscription, and fill the pub with english speaking tourists passing through, will make.

The more girlfriend friendly alternative might be to just pay the €14 for the online GAAGo coverage and find decent wifi for the hour and a half and watch it somewhere in Sitges.

Very Bored

munchkin_utd wrote: »

to be honest, theres 2 types of Irish bar on the continent, the one that caters for ex-pats and has sky/ rte/ whatever contraptions are needed to get sports from UK and Ireland and ones that are filled with happy go lucky locals looking for a place with atmosphere that is really a music pub with shamrocks on the walls that sells Guinness (sometimes only from cans).

The ex-pat pub will enevitably be ran by someone from UK or Ireland, the other by locals.

The ex-pat pub always will have a website so that passing trade can find them and be alerted that they have Sky etc to show the GAA and premier league. The website/ web presence will have info in english for the paddy/ brit on tour.
The second (seemingly like the place in Sitges) has no proper website or need for one as its filled by regulars who know where the pub is and what it does or doesnt offer. And the little bit of stuff they have on facebook is in spanish (or is that catalan?)

The Barcelona GAA team sponsors are the Michael Colins pub, http://michaelcollinspubs.com/ , so they will be showing the game.
NOTE: their website is in english and uptodate with info on the GAA/ Soccer they are showing, which any pub making the effort to get and pay for a UK/IRL sky box and subscription, and fill the pub with english speaking tourists passing through, will make.

The more girlfriend friendly alternative might be to just pay the €14 for the online GAAGo coverage and find decent wifi for the hour and a half and watch it somewhere in Sitges.

Jeez I was only trying to help ... I didn't say I had found the OP the perfect place, I only laid the trail for him .

Depends on who your girlfriend is. My wife is as Cat mad as I am so she'd happily tag along into Barcelona to watch the match .

munchkin_utd

Very Bored wrote: »

Jeez I was only trying to help ... I didn't say I had found the OP the perfect place, I only laid the trail for him .

Depends on who your girlfriend is. My wife is as Cat mad as I am so she'd happily tag along into Barcelona to watch the match .

sorry, just had to explain that not all Irish pubs have the game, not to override what you said, but more to dispel the idea that all Irish pubs are there for irish tourists. They arent, as funny enough locals who live in a place 365 days a year are often the prime market for an irish pub.

To be honest, the majority of irish pubs in Europe do not show the premier league let alone GAA, and a significant number would not see any irish person from one end of the year to the next.
And, worse still, if a pub does have a UK or IRL sky box many will only have the one and will show a 2nd divison english soccer game ahead of an all Ireland final, and if they have multiple boxes then you will get the sound of the soccer rather than the GAA on the pub system.

But it struck me that sky has the rights to the semi finals and finals so ALL pubs with UK sky sports across europe will have the games without need to have a separate premier sports subscription. (and premier sports will not be showing the semis or finals anyhow as sky has them)

Very Bored

Ah ok, yeah you're right, in fact I would say the bulk of Irish pubs abroad, including those in the UK, are no more Irish than the Queen. That said, I'd be shocked if there was much trouble finding a proper one around Barcelona.

gaillimh

Thanks for the info lads.
I know I'd definitely find somewhere in Barelona that's showing it - but am only arriving into Sitges around lunchtime so don't really want to go into the city straight away or head in there first before dropping our stuff off.
Will keep looking anyway :-)

gaillimh

Also there's a big premiership game on at 4pm that day so I'd assume anywhere with Sky in Sitges would be showing that rather than the gaa.

Tigerandahalf

Maybe watch through the internet and rte gaago. Also I think you can pay for sky streams for a day.