A year and a half into the present Sky-GAA deal, Colm O'Rourke, in his Sunday Independent column, has aimed a boot in the direction of the GAA for allowing games to be screened on the channel.
He also, no doubt influenced by the work of Paul Rouse, alluded to the weak viewing figures for matches on Sky.
The Sky deal is one instance where the central authorities got it badly wrong, and the viewing figures reflect that. Nobody is watching on that channel; if Dublin and Kerry met in a quarter-final and it was not on free to air TV, then the complaints would start again in earnest.
O'Rourke went on to sound off some more NAMA's decision to sell the Spawell site in South Dublin to a grouping other than Dublin GAA.
The county board offered in excess of the €6.5 million asking price in an attempt to build a Dublin GAA hub on the south side.
NAMA accepted a higher offer. But O'Rourke argues, with great vigour, that money should not be the only consideration. Selling to the GAA would be an imaginative and far-sighted move , he says.
O'Rourke is clearly enraged by the topic.
The biggest landbank outside Communist-controlled countries is being handed away to foreign hedge funds in the greatest transfer of wealth ever in a democratic country... Dublin GAA supporters should be marching in protest. The practice, albeit not policy, of NAMA is Anybody But Paddy.
