Q&A: What is this controversy over the GAA’s streaming service?

Criticism over GAAGO streaming service centres on the number of games now behind a paywall

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Meanwhile, restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic had given the association an opportunity to trial its streaming service to the domestic Irish audience for live league matches, with some success.Under a new deal announced late last year, the online streaming service will have the exclusive rights to show 38 live matches this year.

It reported profits of €1 million in 2021, up from more than €700,000 the year before, according to its most recent financial accounts filed last summer. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Dáil this week it was not possible for RTÉ and TG4 to televise all GAA matches. The Fine Gael leader said the most popular and important matches should be on free-to-air television, with GAAGO used for other matches.

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