Duffy: Sky deal benefits emigrants

GAA director general Páraic Duffy says the world has changed completely since 2010 when the organisation told the government selling their media rights to a “foreign channel” was out of the question.

At yesterday’s Oireachtas transport and communications committee debate on the GAA’s Sky Sports deal, Duffy addressed the GAA’s statement five years ago that they would not entertain such an idea as it would be “contrary to the culture and national ethos of the association”.

He explained that the GAA had to move with the times in light of the number of Irish people who have emigrated because of the downturn in the economy.