Club Championships 2022/23

I caught a few seconds of the Cavan county championship game on TV last night.

And I had to ask myself, were the All Ireland finals brought forward to the middle of July so that we could have club quarter finals in the pissing rain in October?

almost all the leading counties have their senior club championship teams featured live at varying stages by TG4 or [RTE2 in last couple of years]

am wondering why Galway senior club hurling gets practically no live coverage on either on TG4 or RTE

not sure if its because by the time their championship reaches the knockout stage other counties are at Finals and by the time their final is played we are already in club Provincial series so that then would take precedence over anything that's happening in Galway

maybe its something got to do with the Galway county board having a policy in place

Isnt everyone doing that now

Are they really getting less games on TV ?

It's a rare true dual county whereas most other hurling counties will get little or no football on RTE. Also their sides won't feature in a provincial championship so might look like you see them less.

GalwayLurker,I’d imagine it’s because Galway GAA are streaming their own games again this year, quite successfully too, very handy option to have when you can’t get to some of the games.

yea like what Breezy said, almost all counties are streaming their own county club games now, anyway even before Galway GAA started streaming TG4 never did live coverage of your senior club scene

hmm, that's interesting, left 3-9 behind them, with the very brief TG4 highlight show on Monday evenings its very hard to get a true reflection of how a game has panned out. I notice there was a bunch of Cleary's playing for Shinrone, could you tell me if they are sons of the Pat Cleary who played for Offaly in the 1980's? [especially 1985]

They had the Kerry and Donegal SFC finals listed, showed Kerry and now Laois. But they never changed the EPG, still giving the details for Donegal.

A draw in the Louth SFC final, St Marys Ardee and Newtown Blues Drogheda 1-12 each.

Unfortunately this is Ireland and there's no guarantee whatsoever with the weather. Today i was at a game with about 4 layers and an umbrella and still got soaked. Yesterday i watched a game wearing a shirt and sunglasses.

This year's Munster final was played in atrocious conditions on June 5th. Last years was in burning heat in July.

One thing i did note was that underfoot conditions were very good for October and most games are still high scoring.

Yes.

Agree. It's unprecedented in the Dublin club championships.

and just for good measure Ballymacarbry have only won their 41st successive senior club in Waterford