Anyone subscribe to this? The website is fairly poor but it seems like you can't watch many games, but does have the facility to watch old All Ireland Finals which i'd be interested in.
The annual crazy level of those who support the fleecing of supporters for more money.
The dogs in the street know that the entire Championship structure (with all the extra games) was built entirely to suit the GAA Go system. "These games wouldn't be seen at all if it weren't for GAA Go" What a load of BS. All that's happening now is that people are missing huge games that, 15 years ago, would have been viewable on RTE.
Ever wonder why Cork appear to be disproportionately affected by this? Because they got a big fat stadium that is costing the GAA a pretty penny so Cork fans are clearly the target of the GAA Go tax.
Currys has the HD Chromecast with Google TV OS at 40 euro. Released 2022. Decent price.
https://www.currys.ie/products/google-chromecast-hd-with-google-tv-snow-10242833.html
NOTE: Its heavily rumoured Google will be launching a new version of their 4k Chromecast at their 2024 Google I/O showcase tonight at 6pm. It's nearly 4 years old now so definitely worth waiting to see if they release a higher spec device if you want 4k.
I'd be very surprised if something like that wasn't happening already….very good idea if properly monitored, if you get my drift.
I think it would be a decent step for the GAA to arrange something through the clubs where volunteers could go and help people in their locality get the tech set up, maybe help them arrange a chromecast if necessary, write down the steps for them to get in from their device onto the TV etc.
far as I know you can buy a device to cast stuff onto the TV. Little dongle that plugs into the USB on the telly?
Cost about Euro 35?
I'm grand as I have it all on the fire stick but have heard from friends and family over The last few weeks when they have bought games that they had no way to cast it onto their TV and had to watch the games On their phone.
I've checked my TV and the app is not there and there's no Chromecast built-in either. So I'm presuming you need a relatively new TV for this to work.
The annual crazy level of discourse on a total non-issue for most GAA fans with any modicum of genuine interest.
Pay your few quid a month and access massive amounts of content on-demand, or be happy with the free-to-air GAA that's on every Saturday and Sunday. You're not losing anything by not subscribing to GAA GO, you're just not getting extra for free.
Correct, I usually judge the Tainiste as a safe pair of hands but on this occasion because Cork were involved
he seemed he had to put his oar in…. pure electioneering …lets call a spade a spade.
Burns was excellent on the CB show ..said it as it is, and came across very well.
How do some people think a practically voluntary organisation like the GAA can exist when they plough 85%
of revenue back into facilities and clubs.
I realise they get Govt support, and rightly so, but they save the Govt far more than they get.
Some folk don't seem or want to understand these issues.
He didn't smack down the leader of the government. He said he met an Oireachtas committee last year, he said he met the Tanaiste, he said he met the Minister for Sport and he said he met Paschal Donohue only last week in Croker, and none of the above have raised the concerns regarding GaaGo with him as they have in public. Clare Byrne put it to him that 'did he believe that the Govt were speaking out of both sides of their mouths and he agreed they were.
He doesn't appear to be too far off the mark.
The app is available on most tv's from the last few years and its also on Amazon Firesticks and Apple TV.
Would depend on the TV.
Seems to be 4 options according to GaaGo website: casting from mobile app on phone/tablet if you have a Chromecast or TV with built in Chromecast (some do have built in so check the TV settings), native app included for certain TV brands in their own app store, android/apple app downloaded direct to TV if TV runs on either OS, cabling a laptop / PC to TV.
What brand / model of TV are you using?
You can cast it from your phone to your TV,you could even use a HDMI cable from you laptop.
I haven't done this myself but I imagine you can download the app on your smart TV which would probably be the best.
That's handy alright
My own opinion, but its fairly naiive and arrogant of Jarlath Burns if he thinks he can smack down the leader of the government in this way; particularly when the GAA has been such a beneficiary of state funding.
Similarly, he was fairly derogatory about Sean Cavanagh, something along the lines of 'you'd think he would he'd know this stuff as an accountant' - to which he got truly owned by Cavanagh who referenced that yes he had looked at the GAA's accounts and spoke about what he saw.
He's really fanned the flames here.
We have vodafone for the tv. The play store is on their box and you can install the GAAGo app. Very easy to use.
To the lads using GAA GO are you watching the games on your phone or how do you get it to your tv?
Probably the same crowd who have no problem shelling out the Shekels to follow Munster to South Africa.
Complete playing to the gallery that guy, glad some folk see through the rubbish
You'd swear no one in Cork had an internet connection or the ability to use a payment card either the way he was going on.
Jaysus!
He dug deep into the hyperbole field there, in fairness
Edit.. didn't see Breezies post there, just shows some folk are not taken in by
flowery language and bull dust in the breeze.
That is pathetic levels of hyperbole.
Cork must be a great place altogether if this is the subject counsellors "never saw as much outrage or upset in all my years in Cork County Council"
Free flowing traffic, an abundance of social housing and no boarded up shops in this Eden that is Cork I assume.
To be fair thats not a good example....you'll always get " yahoos" who don't do anything, doesn't mean the rest of the people should be denied.
The contract which runs from 2022 to 2027 commits RTE to also show at least 9 camogie games live on terrestrial Free to Air every year. The government is also making RTE add some other sporting events to the Free to Air list, including some other womens events.
The solution to the problem lies with our politicians. I like the very practical approach of the Mayor of Cork.
Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Frank O’Flynn initially raised the issue under Any Other Business at the meeting and the debate attracted much anger from the elected representatives.
During the course of an emotional address Mayor O’Flynn said people were outraged the game wasn’t broadcast live on RTÉ. “I never saw as much outrage or upset in all my years in Cork County Council that I got over the weekend over the lack of coverage of the greatest game in Ireland. It was one of the best spectacles of sport. There are numerous people out there who could not enjoy it because they couldn’t watch the game,” he said.
Mayor O’Flynn appealed for a letter to the sent to the Minister for Sport Catherine Martin, Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan and Taoiseach Simon Harris requesting that all GAA games be broadcast on the free to air channels. “Thousands of people in this country were denied the greatest spectacle that we ever had. I want this council to write to the Minister for Communications, the Minister for Sport and to go to the very top with the Taoiseach because he was in attendance.
Cricket moch like snooker was at its peak in a world of very few channels. Tha Ashes was an event like the Crucible that every watched as a ritual. Cricket has huge problems with the marketability of the game which is why things like 1 day cricket or the IPL exists.
You also have success stories like darts which was massively boosted by the paywall.
As John Fogarty posted today: RTÉ live #GAA c'ship coverage 2019 v 2024.
2019 (games) 5 of 29 provincial SFC
8 of 15 All-Ireland SFC series
12 of 22 provincial SHC
5 of 7 All-Ireland SHC
2024 (games) 8 of 29 provincial SFC
9 of 35 All-Ireland SFC series
9 of 27 provincial SHC
5 of 7 All-Ireland SHC. 2019 figure doesn't include the 24 qualifier games, one of which was televised by RTÉ. The annual GAAGO row to an extent neglects the fact the championship expanded by 25 games but RTÉ's 31 live game package remained the same.
RTE can't show the games on Saturday because they didn't pay for the package. RTE could show it all if they pay more. That's how packages work in every sport.
Just tax all GAAGO revenue at 70 or 75%, money is the way to have the GAA rethink the matter.
Well, that's the first thing I'd change. Cut all ties with RTE.
Every provincial council and county board should keep investing heavily in a streaming service. Why share any of the cake with RTE?
Yes, they will be teething problems but as soon as the money starts rolling in, things will change. The GAA or one of the provincial councils should buy out Clubber or the current GAAGO company completely out - rehire everyone, not in a permanent RTE contract, and hire some of the production people from directors to camera men from TG4 and Virgin (with relevant experience) to help with the design and promotion of programming from camera angles to producing whole magazine shows. Don't tell me the GAA don't have the money to do that. If they get in early before these companies get too big - just take over and take all the profit rather than share it with a failed, corrupt organization like rte.
They also need to get more imaginative with their season tickets and club memberships - make them more expensive but tie in a package for the matches on stream too. There's so much that can be done. Burns made an idiot of himself today. He accused Cavanagh of emotional reasoning and then started talking about not wanting to promote a sedentary lifestyle by having all matches on TV (my bleeding heart!) while also stressing the need to generate as much income as possible from GAAGO. Talking out both ends. TG4 show every juvenile game going and it does everything to promote the game. It can be done. Social media like TikTok gets good traction with clips from these games. There's absolutely nothing wrong with giving the game exposure and a lot of matches for free. We live in the age of advertising. Getting eyes on a screen is everything.
There's two important points to add; only certain games are behind the paywall - most games aren't. This is enabling games that otherwise would not be showing.
The other key point is the majority of people on the island do not want both of the main two channels wall to wall GAA over the weekend. Now I'm firmly in the camp that I'd love 5 hours of GAA on a Saturday and Sunday... But even in my own family I'm a minority. There's enough sport on RTE
RTE do have the rights to a lot more than that if you include the games shown by their 50% owned subsidiary GaaGo….
But they don't have the right to show more games than they are allowed to on FTA TV, plus they have a obligation to show 4 provincial football finals and probably 2 provincial hurling finals.
And as another poster pointed out they have rights to other sports in certain timeslots so they can't just abandon them for the sake of a GAA game.
People seem to think that RTE can just pick and chose what they do and don't show and make it up as they go along.
Not sure thats a good comaprison.
Cricket was in trouble well before 2005 I would wager.
No other sport gets a look in with Football in England.
GAA still rules the roost over here.
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