Most significant GAA programme this week has nothing to do with GAAGO via IrishTimesSport
Who knew when schedules were being drawn up that the hoped-for climactic final round of the Munster hurling championship would be such a damp squib?
Noel Quinn was recently elevated to the newly created role of Head of GAAGO the streaming service that holds rights to a significant number of championship matches. As was remarked at the time of the rights deal, there was a sense that Sky’s rapid departure from the GAA rights market had brought forward GAAGO, as an alternative somewhat earlier than had been anticipated.
Ultimately there are, a) more matches than ever, b) more matches on terrestrial television than ever and c) more matches that would never have been on terrestrial, available to people. The programme also deals with the situation elsewhere in Munster, which was the cockpit of the war. The fight for Cork is described as the biggest pitched battle of the revolutionary period. Gaelic games in the county suffered badly from the impact on public transport and the general impossibility of organising fixtures.
Historian, Mike Cronin of Boston College who contributes to the programme, summarised in The GAA and Revolution in Ireland: “While the GAA had attempted to find a solution to the conflict, it was simply not influential enough to bring the two sides together.”There was a split in Clare with an alternative county board being established but measures were eventually found to unite again.
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