Ciarán Cudahy

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John Malloy, do you have a view on GAA Plus and games behind the paywall?

Again, I'm open to correction on this.

Somebody from TG Cahir might get in touch and clarify if I'm wrong, but I think they did bid for championship matches the last time it came around, but they were just unsuccessful.

Their bid was too low.

Yeah, essentially, I'm not defending it, but that's what it is.

They say the GAA is a, the inter-county game is a product we're selling.

Yeah, it is.

They were too expensive for them.

The price was too high.

Ah, but who's deciding that?

Who's deciding that?

do a wonderful wonderful job in promoting hurling football and everything else rugby and everything else They do a brilliant job and like I said as far as I know you know when it came to inter-county championship matches they do show National League championship matches they just couldn't afford the games they put in a bid and they were unsuccessful and

But John, John, let's then, OK, then let's be honest about it.

It's not just at inter-county level and 40 million euro run on inter-county teams where spending has got out of hand.

You're talking about clubs.

You go down to Junior B...

Gaelic football club in Kilkenny now that is pretty much lowest of the low if you're talking about football in Kilkenny and Junior B and you've got probably lads going to physios and lads dietitians and you've got some lad coming in doing strength and conditioning coaching getting paid however many quid a week quote unquote

I don't know how much of that actually gets declared to revenue either.

You know, spending, it's not just at inter-county level.