Government plans for free-to-air All-Ireland quarter-finals may force GAAGO change

The Association have registered their opposition the proposal.

STAY OF GAAGO? A broadcast camera operator tracks the play during the clash between Cork and Limerick last weekend. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

The GAA may be forced to remove two of the All-Ireland senior football quarter-finals from GAAGO in future years if the Government pushes ahead with making all four last-eight games free-to-air.

Earlier this year, GAA director general Tom Ryan wrote to the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to air his opposition to the last-eight games being designated free-to-air.