Dónal Óg Cusack had strong words for the GAA and RTE about the lack of big Munster championship games on free-to-air TV.
DÓNAL ÓG CUSACK launched a blistering attack on the GAA and RTÉ for their failure to screen more Munster championship games on free-to-air TV.
“Hurling needs oxygen,” said Cusack. “I have no issue with pay per view. That’s part of the landscape and it has its role to play. “There’s loads hundreds, thousands of brilliant, brilliant volunteers who are trying to grow hurling. As I said at the outset, it needs oxygen. There’s no better oxygen that you can get in the game than the imagery coming out of the likes of Tipp and Clare, from a full Ennis. That being beamed into every house in Ireland. The Clare and Limerick game, the power of that.
“What about all the kids that were trying to introduce into the game, trying to grow the game, trying to bring new demographics into it? We’ve lost a huge opportunity over the last number of weeks and I would say that the GAA has failed horribly at this stage.” Tyrrell added that the Tailteann Cup final was on live on RTE last year while the hurling “struggles to get it’s main games on”.
“I came in downstairs here and was looking at the screen and I thought something looked strange about Croke Park. The cameras were on the other side of the field. Now I can only assume those cameras were put on the other side of the field so that the crowd would look bigger.
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