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What big stories are covered in this week's episode?
The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk. With Aviva Insurance. Welcome to The Debrief. We're going to look back on some of the big stories of the week. I'm joined by Mick Clifford, the Irish examiner, Jane Matthews, political reporter with The Journal, and Aideen Finnegan, who's presenter of the Better With Money podcast with The Irish Times. And you're all welcome. Thank you for coming in today. Now, earlier in the week, we had a discussion around GAA, free-to-air, the fact that a lot of the games were not free-to-air last weekend and people had to pay on the streaming service. Does it bother you, Mick?
No.
I'll be honest with you, Clare, no. I mean, last weekend I was in Croke Park. Well, to be fair, I'll just give you an example. Two weeks previously, I went to watch the Kerry Armagh match and I was working in London for the examiner. And I managed to be able to watch it in my hotel room in stifling heat because of GA+. And basically that brought home to me, because I haven't lived abroad for a long number of years, the importance of it in particular for the so-called diaspora. The other element to it is... all the money in the GA, to the greatest extent, goes back into the game, unlike professional sport organisations. And so from that point of view, I don't have a big problem with it. The only issue that would arise, and I don't think it's a big issue, is people who have issues around technology, particularly older people and tuning into it.
And there is something there, but surely we're still living in a scenario whereby somebody in the community... can help out people like that in one form or another.
Yeah, because we had Colm O'Rourke on the programme talking about it and I think we arrived at the conclusion at the end of our conversation that maybe when you get to quarterfinal stage in the Championship that really those kind of games should be on the telly.
There's an argument for that.
How does the GAA's broadcasting situation affect fans?
So that everybody can see them and it's nearly like it's a give back isn't it to all of the I know that argument has been made time and time again to all of the volunteers around the country but I do think there's something in it You know, the people are going out in a wet Tuesday night to train young, young girls and boys that really to expect them to pay. I don't know. How do the rest of you feel about it?
I mean, I have to start out at the outset and say I'm not a big GAA person. I when people I meet go to a family event and they'll say, oh, Cladair is playing today. And I'm like, oh, are they really? I don't know. But I do sort of feel like any organisation that is in receipt of that much taxpayers money and public funding is. kind of onus is on you to kind of provide that stuff then to the grassroots isn't it?
Isn't that what the money is there for? What do you think? Yeah I think I'm in a similar position to Aideen but I am a lay woman so I'm a big GA person for the next month but no I think I guess my gut instinct on this was like it should be free to air it's our national sport you know the players don't get paid and it's such an integral part of our culture and that but then when you do think about it there's such a massive amount of games that they do need to broadcast and like My partner is from Donegal. He was trying to watch a Donegal and Cork match recently, I think. And it actually wasn't even on GA Go. It wasn't on RTE. So he was forced to listen to it on the radio. And it was kind of like being back in the olden days.
So I think maybe that's... Nothing wrong with the radio now, Jane?
No, no. That is an example, though, of the fact that sometimes there are so many matches. In the first instance, the national broadcaster, Our Virgin, wouldn't be able to do them alone anyway. So you have to have some other entity there... for that alone, like, to be fair to them. I mean, as you say, Clare, there is an argument about the quarterfinal stage. But, generally speaking, grassroots people, people who are involved in the association, I think, don't have a massive problem. It's more people who would like to tune in anyway because people say it's a national sport.
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