Will Hurling separate from the GAA to form its own body sooner rather than later?

He's not wrong: https://x.com/RoryJacob/status/1781336447443698065

‘GAA did a better job of promoting rugby’ – Tom Dempsey thinks ‘hurling is being driven into the ground’ by GAAGO

https://x.com/IndoSport/status/1787731597690618152

There's not enough hurling games in the championship to put them behind a paywall. Football has loads of rounds and games.

I've been saying for a long time what Eddie Brennan just posted:
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The question that needs to be answered:

Are there individuals benefitting financially from GAAGO when people who built our clubs are faced with paying if they want to watch our national games?
Some openness & transparency would be nice
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GAA has released All-Ireland group stage ticket packages.

€50 (£43) for three SFC group games €30 (£26) for three Tailteann Cup group games

€30 (£26) for three Tailteann Cup group games

€15 juvenile package that only appears to be available to Dublin supporters

When a fella working in the GAA and RTE, who knows the people and the scene, is writing like this…. - must be around 2 million in the counties involved

Donal Og today:

Elsewhere, top of the bill in the Christy Ring Cup is the Brexit Derby. London who are unbeaten and top of the table, travel to Owenbeg to play Derry who need the two points to put them back into contention.

Neither that game nor any of the Joe McDonagh or Christy Ring Cup matches are amongst the 38 championship games being shown on GAAGO this summer.
Leinster Rugby took up residency in Croke Park last weekend

No less than seven Tailteann Cup games will be featured. Why? Because football is more important? Who knows.

The senior hurling championship involves 34 matches, the football championship is 64 matches. For some reason, those 34 hurling games have to be squeezed into the cracks between the football schedule.

The All-Ireland hurling final has to be done and dusted before the football showpiece. Why?

Think about these last two points. Firstly, Wexford put on a great show of grit and imagination last Saturday.

You could feel the enthusiasm about Wexford hurling coming back with every score. That game played on the first weekend of May 2024 was the last time Wexford people, young and old, will see their senior hurling team play in Wexford Park until 2025.

On the same evening, the people responsible for this crazy system being in place were catering to another sport in Croke Park.

Maybe they should look at that other sport and think about marketing their own game.

Secondly, when Clare played Limerick on live television a few weeks back, 436,000 people tuned in, almost 200,000 more than watched the football game that followed - more than one in every two people who decided to turn on the TV that evening.

Cork against Limerick tomorrow is a huge opportunity to showcase the game to many people all over again.

It is commonly acknowledged that hurling needs oxygen. This weekend the people charged with promoting the game have given up that opportunity in order to sell subscriptions for a commercial entity. A commercial entity that does hurling in Ireland very little service.

With this evidence of a glaring leadership vacuum and the sport's visibility at stake, Hurling Nation asks where does the government of Ireland stand when it comes to supporting not just the sport but a cultural cornerstone?

I'm not sure what that will achieve when he has a voice on the subject that everyone can hear because he has the job?

Cavanagh:

"I haven't pulled out the recent accounts but I remember seeing a couple of years ago 40,50, 60m of cash reserves and a balance sheet of €100m. I'm an accountant, I know this stuff.

"For an amateur organisation owned by the members, owned by the people that are lining pitches, by people in every club up and down the country, for me that looks like a very healthy position.

"I previously worked with a lot of soccer organisations, a lot of them go bust all the time and haven't got 2p to rub together. For me, the GAA is in a very healthy financial position, they're acquiring lots of strategic assets all over the country.

"I think it was just the anger on Saturday night, the fallout of the Cork-Limerick thing and ordinary GAA people losing out. Let's call a spade a game, that game should have been on TV somewhere free-to-air, I think everyone recognises that.

"I remember GAAGO being sold to me as 'this is going to provide games to the world, outside of Ireland' but for me, Saturday night was us punishing people within Ireland who should be seeing that game because this organisation, which is owned by RTÉ and the GAA.

"There's definitely a strong suspicion that there has been tactical picking of the games to generate revenue and profit.

"Why does it have to turn a profit? Why can't those games, whether it's subsidised by the government, why can't you show the bigger games free-to-air to the Irish public.

"There's a bigger picture here of trying to promote our game and trying to not punish the people who run our games. I think that's where a lot of the anger lies, where it felt like it was a little bit sneaky of the GAA on Saturday to put that game behind a paywall and punish the ordinary supporters who really needed to see that.

"Equally, that game should be flaunted because that's the game that everyone's going to remember, that's going to get kids into hurling. It just felt wrong for me."