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GAA makes digital leap after failing to agree new Sky deal

GAAGo platform to be used to host live panel shows, documentaries and matches

Up for debate: The best from the Business Post’s columnists

Insightful analysis of the main developments in business and politics from our team of writers, including Matt Cooper, Elaine Byrne and Dan O’Brien

Elaine Byrne: GAA needs to take a long, hard look at this growing culture of violence

The sports body must address frequent violent incidents at matches – including children’s games – and the use of language which downplays the behaviour

The Big Interview

‘We’re going to get criticism ... it sharpens our game’ – Peter McKenna, Croke Park stadium director

Having worked at Croke Park for more than 20 years, the stadium director stresses the importance of taking risks as being a key factor in the venue’s ongoing modernisation and success

Head of Croke Park hits out at hotel industry’s ‘opportunism’

Stadium director Peter McKenna says profiteering by the hotel sector is damaging the wider entertainment and tourism industry

Stream to survive: The sports seeking to emulate F1’s Netflix coup and the risks for those that don’t

From Formula 1 to the Premier League to the PGA Tour, the brains behind top-level sport are seeking out new ways to reach even more viewers, with a slew of fly-on-the-wall docuseries about household names and sporting institutions leading the way

GAA refuses request to use Connaught airdome to accommodate refugees

Organiser says indoor facility in Mayo is fully booked and is not a suitable location for Ukrainian refugees

Matt Cooper: Little sympathy for blundering AIB after major tactical error

AIB has long had a reputation for corporate arrogance and in its focus on maximising profits, it seems it did not consider the social ramifications of the cashless plan

Score Beo to add football and rugby results to free app

Updates from Gaelic football and hurling club championships begin this season, while the new sports’ results will be included in 2023

The Profile: How Brian Cody has remained top dog among the Cats

Can Kilkenny’s stern, stoic and intensely private godfather of hurling bring the Liam MacCarthy Cup home for the first time since 2015?

Matt Cooper: Ryanair fills seats as competitors’ Covid cost-cutting fails to pay off

Airline operators are cancelling hundreds of flights and disappointing thousands of travellers as airports such as Gatwick struggle to keep check-in and baggage-handling services running. But it didn’t have to be like this

Matt Cooper: Whose fault is it that Johnson is still in power?

Through sheer brass neck and absence of conscience, the British prime minister has ridden out the media storm for the required 11 days, which also reflects badly on those who can’t or won’t oust him

GAA live scores app turns down gambling sponsors

Score Beo founder Fergus Grimes says the addiction problem in the sport compelled him to refuse a partnership with six companies in the sector

Still scoring after 30 years: Why Allianz’s GAA deal continues to endure

The insurance provider is celebrating three decades of sponsorship of the National Football and Hurling Leagues, and its head of marketing Mark Brennan says the two competitions are now unrecognisable from what they were in the past

Matt Cooper: Delaney-era guff will not help FAI win trust, or a men’s team sponsor

Though it puts forward some grand and worthy plans, the association’s new strategy document is vague about where the money will come from

Opinion: Why it’s time the GAA gave dangerous challenges the cold shoulder

When legal tackles result in players getting hurt it’s time to examine the laws

Michael Duignan interview: ‘We’re all supposed to be part of the GAA, but some counties are run completely differently to others’

Two-time All-Ireland winner Michael Duignan, the chairman of the Offaly county board, holds forth on changing his county’s fortunes and why the GAA needs to do more to allow smaller counties to compete in the modern era

Mayo GAA money man returns with a radical county plan

Financial trader Tim O'Leary is back with a new vision to bring glory to Mayo, but before he provides fresh funding he wants the board to agree to a drastic stance against GAA HQ including a player's strike

Comment: Mayo suffering from the real curse of social media abuse

Multi-billion dollar tech firms can and must do more to police their sphere

Can Mayo end 70 years of hurt?

Seven decades and 10 final defeats have intensified their yearning for Sam Maguire. Tyrone await in the decider with the Connacht champions now marginal favourites having eventually vanquished Dublin . . . what could possibly go wrong?