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Ciarán Cudahy

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And I know you're interested, obviously, in the Watford-Cork game this weekend, being behind the paywall.

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I think there's 35 live games on RTE television this year.

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It's not nothing.

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The primary is for those who have jobs to keep them and to make themselves richer and it's still... Ah, come on, Conor, there's no... Sorry, just categorically, there is nobody getting an inflated pay packet on the back of the GAA

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making more money.

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Nobody's salary, nobody's salary, they produce a financial report every year and nobody's salary is tied to how much money they make on ticket sales and on GEA+.

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It's just not, and it's just, that's a statement of fact to say that.

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No, it's not set in stone as to... But when you talk about profits that the GAA enjoys, what do you mean?

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But what do you mean by profits the GAA enjoy?

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Yeah, but again, there's no profit in this.

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It's a not-for-profit organisation.

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I know, but you've heard a few times of the profit that they enjoy before they give money to the clubs.

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There is no profit.

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At the end of the year, there's zero profit.

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And there's absolutely an outlay with GA+.

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But what the accounts would show is that they make more money from it and then the overwhelming majority of that money goes back to the clubs.

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And I'm not saying that means you have to support it, but it does beg the question, if you got rid of it, you'd have to make cutbacks.

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And it's not just cutting back technicians who run GA+.

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It would mean reducing money that goes to