Irish Examiner view: Final whistle

GAA’s Sky Sports deal ends

When the deal was signed with Sky Sports back in 2014, there was considerable criticism of the GAA.

The end of the GAA-Sky Sports broadcasting relationship was a good deal less noisy than the beginning.

When the deal was signed back in 2014, there was considerable criticism of the GAA, based primarily on comments the previous year by then director general Páraic Duffy that the association’s membership wouldn’t allow a deal with Sky Sports.