Sky may be catalyst GAA needs for real change

Sorry, but is that it? Nearly a week on from all the hype and hysteria and no little fear that was triggered by the GAA’s new TV deal, has anyone actually looked at the games Sky has won exclusive rights to show?

Its opening game is Kilkenny-Offaly, a game you couldn’t get live on RTÉ last summer either. As it turned out that was a pretty decent contest but it hardly will be this year, not with Kilkenny looking to strike down upon everyone with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempted to poison and destroy their 2013, while Offaly have done nothing to rebut Ger Loughnane’s comments about the size of their legs and bums being fit only to flirt with Division 2.

A week after that then is Wexford-Dublin, a fixture RTÉ has probably televised enough over the last five years.