I find it baffling that after all the big games, Football final, Hurling Final etc that it's never mentioned on the sports news on sky sports.

I would have though it a basic requirement during discussions between the GAA and Sky that results and action clips of the televised games be shown on their sports bulletin the evening of the match. Major blunder i think.

How many people watch sky news & sports every day....Millions, of all nationalities, showing the results, video clips, excitement and passion involved, would be a simple way to get people interested in hurling & gaelic football.
Viewers who probably don't even know the game exists would be wanting to watch the full match the next time, all as a result of having viewed it on sky sports news.

Just wondering why such an obvious opportunity to promote the games seems to have been ignored, it couldn't be that the GAA representatives never though about it.

1951andwaiting (Galway) - Posts: 83 - 22/08/2018 11:42:40    2135555

KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 22/08/2018 11:57:13    2135564

sky know that the goals from a league 2 game probably get more attention than the highlights of the all ireland final.
imagine their presenter called the cup the liam maguire cup........fair play to rte at least they have presenters with an interest in the game.

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 22/08/2018 11:57:54    2135565

1951andwaiting (Galway) - Posts: 83 - 22/08/2018 12:11:40    2135571

What do you expect when one of the chief negotiators admitted recently when interviewed that he knew nothing about the service Sky provided as he hadn't even a Sky subscription & didn't watch matches on the television !!!! This is an organisation with huge logistical back up, staff & massive financial resources, who when advertising for the CEO/Ard Stiurothoir position this year they had to redraw the requirements needed prior to interviews. It's a reflection on the running of the whole Association when it couldn't even agree or get it right, for its main position within it.

Uimhir.a.3. (Galway) - Posts: 409 - 22/08/2018 12:40:10    2135579

One big positive of sky is that they show the matchs in full again on the Monday . In a pub Monday morning watching the whole game build up etc again . Their camera angles etc too looks a lot slicker than RTÉ .

OpenStand (Limerick) - Posts: 671 - 22/08/2018 13:22:24    2135591

KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 22/08/2018 13:47:53    2135599

One of the many rubbish arguments supporters of the sky deal used was how sky would promote the gaa. This and really all there other arguments turned out to be nonsense. The sky deal has been a failure for the gaa.

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 22/08/2018 18:06:00    2135680

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 22/08/2018 19:27:42    2135699

Does anyone know what kind of viewing figures Sky did for the AI hurling final? The RTE figures were impressive, but I'm not sure if Sky release that kind of info. It would be interesting to see what Sky viewing figures were for it, and how it broke down per region (Ireland V Britain V Continental Europe etc)

Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 22/08/2018 20:24:07    2135714

They always show at least 30 seconds of clips of games, even the one that are shown on rte, and also for an hour they had the breaking news that Limerick are Champions, id prefer longer coverage on the news channel but there only a soccer news channel and a bit of cricket

PyatPree (Cork) - Posts: 376 - 22/08/2018 20:26:53    2135716

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 23/08/2018 09:42:45    2135830