There were times during the chaotic Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media session on Wednesday when it was possible to feel some sympathy for poor, unloved GAAGO. If it was a necessary instrument to deliver GAA to the people, it seemed to have assumed this position without much affection. The subject was the future of sports broadcasting in Ireland but the topic was loosely adhered to, bringing to mind the time the writer George S Kaufman worked with the Marx Brothers and interrupted shooting on the set one day to say: “I think I just heard a…

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