Rise of pay TV will show money GAA’s future priority

Here’s the future: The GAA will put more of its highest-profile inter-county championship matches behind a paywall this summer.

The official announcement has yet to be made, but additional games in the football Super 8s and in the hurling provincial championships will be awarded exclusively to Sky Sports.

These matches will displace qualifier matches from early in the season — the type of match that some people used to dismiss as ones that nobody would have any interest in showing.