{"id":451775,"date":"2026-05-16T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/451775\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:32:11","slug":"john-mullane-i-know-how-real-gaa-people-feel-about-this-paywall-croke-park-wont-be-putting-a-muzzle-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/451775\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mullane: I know how real GAA people feel about this paywall \u2013 Croke Park won\u2019t be putting a muzzle on me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFury over coverage is not going away as Banner and Tipp prepare to clash in the shadows\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Incredibly, the GAA chose subscription money over visibility,' said RT\u00c9 Sport analyst D\u00f3nal \u00d3g Cusack with this weekend's Clare v Tipperary game being shown on GAA+. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a4d4f2d5-df5d-43ea-a07a-4a7092e08861.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;Incredibly, the GAA chose subscription money over visibility,&#8217; said RT\u00c9 Sport analyst D\u00f3nal \u00d3g Cusack with this weekend&#8217;s Clare v Tipperary game being shown on GAA+. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I\u2019ve never received as many messages of support and thanks as I have in the week since last Friday\u2019s column on GAA+ and how our games are being pushed behind a paywall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There will always be a few naysayers no matter what you write but so many decent people are frustrated at the direction the GAA is going in, and over the lack of promotion of our national games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fury over coverage is not going away as Banner and Tipp prepare to clash in the shadows &#8216;Incredibly,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30041,5582,61,60,180923,112],"class_list":["post-451775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-clare-gaa","tag-tipperary-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-mullane","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}