Joxer - the GAA sold the rights abroad to Sky, setanta etc Hardly RTE's fault. RTE cover a huge amount of games live on TV and radio. And on top of that stream them for fans around the world. But hey dont let that stop you.

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4653 - 30/01/2015 19:17:14    1688179

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thats even worse that they actualy have these games and they still wont mention the gaa on their news bulletins
it just shows how much of an agenda their is that they are willing to not even promote something they will actualy have
and plaster the irish reserve rugby team instead in our faces.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 30/01/2015 19:45:34    1688191

bad.monkey
Yep s goldrick - RTE are giving live coverage to well over 100 GAA games this year across different formats , not forgetting the many preview & highlights shows. It is far more coverage than any other sports get but shhhhh these facts have no place on this thread!
Anyway back to it lads...hahaha fair play bad.monkey.
30/01/2015 18:42:07 Joxer
Is this not a premium pay for view service? I'm sure the rugby boys would love the indignity of having to subscribe to their games and be subjected to a poor quality stream experience. Just saying! There is many who do have to.... cant afford sky/BT and have the indignity of being subjected to poor quality streaming(illegal) Streaming of GAAgo isn't that bad is it?
30/01/2015 19:17:14 bad.monkey
Joxer - the GAA sold the rights abroad to Sky, setanta etc Hardly RTE's fault. RTE cover a huge amount of games live on TV and radio. And on top of that stream them for fans around the world. But hey dont let that stop you. +1
30/01/2015 19:45:34 hill16no1man
badmonkey thats even worse that they actualy have these games and they still wont mention the gaa on their news bulletins
it just shows how much of an agenda their is that they are willing to not even promote something they will actualy have
and plaster the irish reserve rugby team instead in our faces. Only one eyed GAA fans like you think RTE have an agenda against GAA. If there was such pro rugby agenda in RTE then there wouldn't be such a reduction in rugby coverage after this season on RTE

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 30/01/2015 19:56:27    1688192

a pay per view streaming service?...not exactly much now is it when you consider a nothing reserve game in rugby is being shown live...i presume rte will be showing the rest of the reserve 6 nations also? as well as the u20s and womens?..would that be correct?..plus the main where the coverage is justified obviously

fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 30/01/2015 20:19:52    1688198

Bad Monkey - the GAA sold the rights to 14 games to Sky last year. Are you seriously using that as an excuse? So the sum total of their efforts will be no league cup games, no league games but they will show select championship games, broadcast some on the wireless and you can pay extra to view a dodgy stream over the web. Meanwhile you can watch Wolfhounds v New England Patriots, or whatever it is they call themselves, the thrilling PRO12 competition, European cup competition, 6 nations, autumn internationals, more RTE promotion than the Olympics, retired pros masquerading as analysts with heavy hourly rates on our screens and all for a sport that in the 2005 ESRI survey on population participation didn't even rate in the top 8. Seriously?

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4746 - 30/01/2015 20:21:28    1688199

joxer..just wait till rte lose the 6 nation to bt sport or sky in 2018..wonder will there be as much outrage?

fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 30/01/2015 20:31:58    1688212

Bad monkey Rte don't show a single gaa game from the third Sunday in September until the middle of may, if the don't bid for rights the are not going to get them, the show twice the amount of rugby games as the do either football or hurling and the give massive coverage even to games the do not have the live broadcast tv rights to. You cannot access Gaago in Ireland and it is a jointly owned commercial operation by the Gaa and Rte, it is cheaper to watch all the gaa games outside Ireland then it is in Ireland.
Last weekend the national championships in both boxing and basketball were on and the gave no coverage to either, Bbc ni showed the McKenna cup final yet Rte could not even be bothered showing a clip of this or sending a camera to the McGrath cup final where Waterford footballers won there first trophy for many years. Rte are going showing ail highlights yet the could not be bothered giving the results of the intermediate and junior semi finals which took place last weekend. Yet the could show highlights of a nothing Munster rugby game.
Rte had giving more coverage the reserve Wolfhounds game by Thursday night then the gave the international rules game in total. Ormond you mention about showing this game as been part of the agreement to show the six nations but the Bbc are the host broadcaster for Ireland games and the are not showing this game. Ormond you also mention the national league and the pro 12 been different which is true the national league is the main gaa competition when it is played, while the pro 12 comes after internationals and the champions cup in terms of importance when it is been played. Trying to say Georgia are a strong team is ridiculous, as is your comments about Connacht given you agreed with the stupid idea of getting rid of them;

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 30/01/2015 20:39:41    1688220

Ah Joxer back to fantasy land eh - RTE do not have the rights to show European Cup rugby or Pro12 . Just plain untrue to say they show these games. They were outbid by Sky and tg4. Similarly they do not have rights to show National League GAA games, again they were outbid by tg4 because they had to bid against Sky and others to show Championship games. Some here think they should be some kind of Sky Sports channel showing non stop sport ! They are a national broadcaster they show the big national events - international soccer and rugby games & GAA championship. Now with the 6 nations rugby will get lots of coverage , just as GAA will in the summer. It is ridiculous to suggest they spend thousands of Euro to send cameras and staff to cover the O'Byrne Cup as very few people within the counties care and absolutely nobody outside cares.

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4653 - 30/01/2015 20:45:17    1688225

Tonight RTE manages to show live, with all the bess and whistles, a friendly game between Ireland and England rugby reserves...yes, reserves. I manages to watch about 10 minutes of it while waiting for Seo Spoirt to start, and it was dire. No skill, no excitement, a few lads hoofing the ball back and forth to each other, before the ref awards a penalty to either side because one bit unathletic lads falls wrongly on another of similar build. The people who complain about the standard of Gaelic football shouwn be shown this tripe on continuous loop until they come to their senses! Anyhow, thank God for TG4, Dara O Cinneide and co.

football first (None) - Posts: 1259 - 30/01/2015 20:52:25    1688230

the attendances speak for themselves..you talk as if people care about the rugby?..they dont

fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 30/01/2015 21:07:27    1688239

bad.monkey
Yep s goldrick - RTE are giving live coverage to well over 100 GAA games this year across different formats , not forgetting the many preview & highlights shows]. It is far more coverage than any other sports get but shhhhh these facts have no place on this thread!
Anyway back to it lads...

When it comes to the GAAGO service, RTE aren't actually providing live coverage of all the games. They manage the service, they provide most of the live coverage, but Setanta, Sky, and TG4 provide the live streams of their games to the service. Its a weird one, I was surprised when I saw Sky games on the service last year, that's not a trivial thing for networks to manage(Sky are providing the stream, rte are streaming it in the GAAGO player). I'm not sure who actually owns the GAAGO sevice, but I'm assuming RTE collect the subscription fees, then pay the other broadcasters a fee. Maybe because the service is restricted outside of Ireland and Britain, it makes it possible.

In any case, while its not much use to those at home, its a good service for us in the USA. Hurling doesn't stream the best, but its alot better than what we had before (i.e. nada). Having the league games available this year is pretty cool.

Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 30/01/2015 21:12:38    1688241

30/01/2015 20:21:28 Joxer
Bad Monkey - the GAA sold the rights to 14 games to Sky last year. Are you seriously using that as an excuse? So the sum total of their efforts will be no league cup games, no league games but they will show select championship games, broadcast some on the wireless and you can pay extra to view a dodgy stream over the web. Meanwhile you can watch Wolfhounds v New England Patriots, or whatever it is they call themselves, the thrilling PRO12 competition, European cup competition, 6 nations, autumn internationals, more RTE promotion than the Olympics, retired pros masquerading as analysts with heavy hourly rates on our screens and all for a sport that in the 2005 ESRI survey on population participation didn't even rate in the top 8. Seriously? league cup??? Eh European cup isn't shown on RTE. Poor attempt at knocking the analysts.
30/01/2015 20:31:58 fabio8
joxer..just wait till rte lose the 6 nation to bt sport or sky in 2018..wonder will there be as much outrage? They wont. BBC will keep 6Nations in UK and Sky/BT wont go for just Irish rights
30/01/2015 20:39:41 ROS1
Bad monkey Rte don't show a single gaa game from the third Sunday in September until the middle of may, if the don't bid for rights the are not going to get them, the show twice the amount of rugby games as the do either football or hurling and the give massive coverage even to games the do not have the live broadcast tv rights to. You cannot access Gaago in Ireland and it is a jointly owned commercial operation by the Gaa and Rte, it is cheaper to watch all the gaa games outside Ireland then it is in Ireland.
Last weekend the national championships in both boxing and basketball were on and the gave no coverage to either, Bbc ni showed the McKenna cup final yet Rte could not even be bothered showing a clip of this or sending a camera to the McGrath cup final where Waterford footballers won there first trophy for many years. Rte are going showing ail highlights yet the could not be bothered giving the results of the intermediate and junior semi finals which took place last weekend. Yet the could show highlights of a nothing Munster rugby game.What is all the GAA you want RTE to show between 3rd sunday in September and middle of may when other channels have exclusive rights to competitions. Where are RTE showing AIL highlights?
30/01/2015 20:39:41 ROS1
Rte had giving more coverage the reserve Wolfhounds game by Thursday night then the gave the international rules game in total. Ormond you mention about showing this game as been part of the agreement to show the six nations but the Bbc are the host broadcaster for Ireland games and the are not showing this game. Ormond you also mention the national league and the pro 12 been different which is true the national league is the main gaa competition when it is played, while the pro 12 comes after internationals and the champions cup in terms of importance when it is been played. Trying to say Georgia are a strong team is ridiculous, as is your comments about Connacht given you agreed with the stupid idea of getting rid of them; Pro12 is played all throughout the season and isn't simply a warm up for the European cups. In GAA the January tournaments start and finish before national league. national league starts and finishes before all Ireland championship.
National League is a complete out and out precursor and warm up for all Ireland championship. Same cant be said for pro12 and champions cup. if a team knocked out of Europe they still have pro12 to play for. That doesn't happen in GAA.
Georgia are a strong team. Best of European nations cup, have multiples of players playing in top European teams like Clermont etc.
The idea of getting rid of Connacht was correct at time in terms of finance but of course it would have been wrong to get rid of them

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 30/01/2015 21:17:42    1688243

Agree football first, sky did not bid against rte for the championship games Rte show. Rte could have got the rights for the Saturday night league games if the wanted for example. Alot more people are interested in the O'Bryne cup final then a u 20 or wolfhounds rugby game.

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 30/01/2015 21:18:05    1688245

30/01/2015 20:45:17 bad.monkey
Ah Joxer back to fantasy land eh - RTE do not have the rights to show European Cup rugby or Pro12 . Just plain untrue to say they show these games. They were outbid by Sky and tg4. Similarly they do not have rights to show National League GAA games, again they were outbid by tg4 because they had to bid against Sky and others to show Championship games. Some here think they should be some kind of Sky Sports channel showing non stop sport ! They are a national broadcaster they show the big national events - international soccer and rugby games & GAA championship. Now with the 6 nations rugby will get lots of coverage , just as GAA will in the summer. It is ridiculous to suggest they spend thousands of Euro to send cameras and staff to cover the O'Byrne Cup as very few people within the counties care and absolutely nobody outside cares.+1 excellent post
30/01/2015 20:52:25 football first
Tonight RTE manages to show live, with all the bess and whistles, a friendly game between Ireland and England rugby reserves...yes, reserves. I manages to watch about 10 minutes of it while waiting for Seo Spoirt to start, and it was dire. No skill, no excitement, a few lads hoofing the ball back and forth to each other, before the ref awards a penalty to either side because one bit unathletic lads falls wrongly on another of similar build. The people who complain about the standard of Gaelic football shouwn be shown this tripe on continuous loop until they come to their senses! Anyhow, thank God for TG4, Dara O Cinneide and co. no skill. HAha. Which players are not athletic? Disgraceful to say any of these players are not athletic

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 30/01/2015 21:18:33    1688246

Ormond players are dropped for the pro 12 in advance of the champions cup games, international games and other rest periods over the season. Some counties play 12 competitive games a season on;y 2 of these games may be in the championship, to say the league is only a warm up is rubbish. No matter how Munster and Ulster do in the pro 12 it will be seen as a poor year due to there terrible European results. Saturday night league fixtures rte could have bid for and i am sure won. So the would have been right to get rid of connacht but it would have been wrong talk about a poor political answer. Yours friends in Rte are saying sky/bt could be getting the rights in 2017 in both the uk and Ireland.

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 30/01/2015 21:57:20    1688267

Rte have pulled out of showing live club gaa games, international rules, minor championships, live league games and ladies football completely.

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 30/01/2015 22:01:29    1688270

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Ah Joxer back to fantasy land eh - RTE do not have the rights to show European Cup rugby or Pro12 . Just plain untrue to say they show these games. They were outbid by Sky and tg4. Similarly they do not have rights to show National League GAA games, again they were outbid by tg4 because they had to bid against Sky and others to show Championship games. Some here think they should be some kind of Sky Sports channel showing non stop sport ! They are a national broadcaster they show the big national events - international soccer and rugby games & GAA championship. Now with the 6 nations rugby will get lots of coverage , just as GAA will in the summer. It is ridiculous to suggest they spend thousands of Euro to send cameras and staff to cover the O'Byrne Cup as very few people within the counties care and absolutely nobody outside cares.
30/01/2015 20:52:25
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RTE broadcast highlights of PRO12 and broadcasted all PRO12 games last year ahead of TG4 getting the live rights, I posted that schedule above. Seeing as though you are keen to mention all formats in relation to GAA, are not the European cup games broadcast on Raidio 1? I switched over to the game last night for a few minutes and it seemed to me that Donal Lenihan and Brent Pope were analysing. I thought I heard Ralph Keyes co-commentating but surely not all of this expense for this Mickey Mouse game? Equivalent of having Dunphy, Giles and Brady at a league of Ireland game. I then flicked over to the news where the sport headlines were all rugby, followed by the redevelopment of the RDS, rugby. Immediately following the news was the Late Late Show with star guest, Donnacha O'Callaghan. I mean it couldn't be more obvious, could it? Meanwhile the league championship of the national, and most popular, sport commences this weekend and not so much as a mention of it. This is the equivalent of NBC flooding their sports channel with soccer news on the eve of the commencement of the NFL. Again, seriously?

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4746 - 31/01/2015 09:27:59    1688279

Soccer is the most popular sport in Ireland.

6 nations starting now so lots of coverage. GAA gets the same in the summer, even more so with special events like up for the match. Nobody cares about the National League in GAA, that doesn't sit easy with some here but every GAA person knows its all about the Championship.

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4653 - 31/01/2015 14:17:09    1688334

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Soccer is the most popular sport in Ireland.
6 nations starting now so lots of coverage. GAA gets the same in the summer, even more so with special events like up for the match. Nobody cares about the National League in GAA, that doesn't sit easy with some here but every GAA person knows its all about the Championship.

how is soccer the most popular sport in this country????
add up the entire league of ireland attendances on any weekend
and you will still have only half the attendance at a dublin home match in the league
a competition you say nobody cares about in the gaa

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 31/01/2015 16:11:29    1688361

Much higher participation levels in soccer . And as you well know most soccer fans in Ireland follow the English/Scottish leagues. There are many parts of Ireland where very little Gaelic football is played - all the cities, large parts of Munster / Leinster. Similar story for hurling and rugby. However soccer is popular in every county. Sky subscriptions are huge in Ireland and every pub shows EPL /SPL.

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4653 - 31/01/2015 16:47:21    1688379