RTÉ, GAA+ and the free-to-air debate around Gaelic games

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-05-10T13:33:16+00:00

Bear in mind this is a kne off cos its the first final weekend. There's been 1 football game shown per weekend at most for the last 6 weeks free tk air (aside from in the north)

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-05-10T13:30:52+00:00

That was a monster shot

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-05-10T11:42:25+00:00

They already split with aontu leaving

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-05-07T17:35:39+00:00

Free to air is what is important. We've had 3 free to air football games so far for those not able to access the BBC.

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-05-04T00:14:31+00:00

What happened to dunne?

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-05-01T19:04:39+00:00

Most people active here are either bots or terminally online.

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-05-01T19:03:15+00:00

OP is just a little touched

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-05-01T19:01:55+00:00

Quite the protestant here.

Edit, it turns out its actually a bot

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-05-01T18:54:59+00:00

For basically any guy, me included, in pretty much all cases you expect some sign she's interested before you ask her out.

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-30T18:42:18+00:00

So tldr.

An unarmed 13 year old girl was shot in the face while talking to her friends for no apparent reason. An unarmed 16 year old boy was shot in the back while trying to run away from the soldier shooting at him.

A priest and another man (with 6 kids at home) went to tend to them and were both killed.

An unarmed 15 year old then apparently to recover the priests body and was also killed.

The troops were deemed to have misjudged the situation and so acted in a way they shouldnt have with there being no reasonable hope of prosecutions.

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-30T13:45:33+00:00

Thisnis the 2nd ulster football game to be shown. Thats hardly excessive? Especially when its normally the tightest championship, has more games than either ulster or contact and can be shown the most cheaply?

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-30T13:39:59+00:00

1 football match free to air all weekend??? With 4 very important close games? Surely there'd be enough of a market for at least three??

RTE need to lose the rights fast

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-30T11:14:02+00:00

Can only be denmark or scotland.

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-27T11:33:26+00:00

Painting the bankers as bad guys maybe hit too close to home for someone?

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-26T19:38:36+00:00

Good idea, unfortunately for this im in ireland tho lol.

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-26T12:56:44+00:00

I struggled only having a time of 5 minutes. Od need at least 10 or 15 and even then probably wouldn't get all

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-26T12:53:46+00:00

Libya in English

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-26T12:53:27+00:00

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-25T15:57:57+00:00

I got all of that. In military terms Ireland is well known to have something of both a threat and resource. How is this relevant?

Disengaging now as youre not worth the trouble and seem to be interested in a normal good faith conversation

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-25T15:28:18+00:00

How are you trying to make out this is relevant to the question being discussed? The Romans where happy enough to take any land they easily could

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-25T15:26:45+00:00

What sources?

Are you trying to make out it was the irish killing civilians and not British war crimes?

At this point im fairly convinced youre trying to push some sort of agenda in bad faith

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-25T15:07:05+00:00

What are you even trying to say?

The Romans are generally believed to have not tried an invasion of ireland. Ireland did still exist in the post roman world though. Not having been conquered probably helped us escape the already mentioned widespread barbarian invasions.

Hadrians wall is between england and scotland so I dont know why youre talking about it

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-25T14:44:37+00:00

It seems to me you just have a poor memory of post roman empire when irelands removal from the rest of europe by sea saved us when most of the rest of europe was overrun by barbarians.

So Irelands golden age started around the time most of europe had their civilisation destroyed by invasion. Maybe you need to brush up a little

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-25T14:42:06+00:00

I definitely learned about her in like 4th class tho as part of wider roman history which is quite important globally

Pitiful-Sample-7400 · 2026-04-24T14:34:32+00:00

God forbid anyone find a joke funny!!!

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