No Government intervention to help TG4 secure GAA rights

Government won’t help TG4 buy GAA rights but the department says the channel  is free to use State funding to “progress its strategic priorities"

22 September 2024; A general view of a TG4 microphone at the Roscommon Senior Club Football Championship quarter-final match between St Brigid's and Pádraig Pearses at Dr Hyde Park in Roscommon. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

The Government has indicated it will not intervene to assist TG4 in purchasing GAA championship media rights for 2025 and ‘26.

Both Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Catherine Martin and Minister of State for the department Thomas Byrne previously called for more senior championship games to be available free-to-air.