If you pass your D licence bus driving test in an automatic, youâre qualified to drive both automatic and manual buses. Other way around with car licence. Due to manual buses being phased out.
Once you do your B test in a manual car you can do the b+e in an automatic and be covered for manual. The manual/auto thing is in the process of being removed completely seemingly.
Poor old @Bandage would have been driving decades ago if he didnât have to deal with a clutch.
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Yes provided your car licence was originally achieved in a manual car.
Doesnât apply for trucks afaik, because manual trucks have can have split gear shifts.
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Bambie Thug is 31
Would have guessed younger, if question had have come up in a table quiz for example or a similar situation
If ever there was gonna be as footnote in Irish history.
went to it
pretty good
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Vegetable is a culinary term. Unlike a fruit There is no scientific definition of a vegetable.
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Big Mo from Eastenders and Gary Oldman are siblings.
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Huey Lewis has never seen American psycho. Heâs only seen the scene he lampooned with weird al.
Phil Collins has seen it and thought it was funny
You need to watch ânil by mouth â. Proper gritty
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Brilliant film but a tough watch.
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âItâs not gonna be one of those kind of parties is it?â
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TG4 wanted to bid on championship matches for free-to-air channel before GAAGO snapped up rights
Ellen Coyne
May 15 2024 02:30 AM
A fresh row has engulfed GAAGO, as it emerged TG4 wanted the chance to bid for championship GAA games for its free-to-air TV channel before the rights were sold to the paywalled streaming service.
But the GAA has hit back, claiming TG4 could not afford to bid for the games and that if the GAA was âprepared to give away our rights for freeâ, then all broadcasters would want them.
It comes as Sky said it would consider buying broadcasting rights for GAA games, if they were to be up for tender again.
âWe always look at broadcasting rights as and when they become available,â a spokesman for Sky said.
The GAA and RTĂ have been embroiled in controversy over their joint streaming service, after senior politicians, GAA pundits and members of the public raised concerns about popular, highly anticipated games being placed behind a paywall. The controversy grew last weekend, after Saturday nightâs Munster hurling championship fixture between Limerick and Cork was available to watch only on GAAGO.
This week, GAA president Jarlath Burns said that he would make no apologies for putting big games on GAAGO, in order to try to improve the financial viability of the streaming service.
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In 2021, a number of broadcasters, including Sky, Virgin Media and TG4, were in talks with the GAA about future broadcasting rights for the national sport, which were due to renew in 2022.
It is understood Sky was eager to continue showing GAA fixtures, as it had been doing for nine years, and even wanted to increase the number of games it could show. After a long negotiation, which is understood to have involved the GAA changing its offer a number of times, the final offer on the table was not commercially viable for Sky.
After Sky and the GAA announced in October 2022 that they had come to a mutual decision to end their broadcasting partnership, it is understood that neither Virgin Media nor TG4 were offered the chance to buy the broadcasting rights that would have brought bring more games to free-to-air channels.
This is despite the fact that TG4 is understood to have been very eager to broadcast live championship games, though it would have faced a seven-Âfigure licence fee from the GAA for the rights. But sources maintained that the Irish-language broadcaster would have considered the fee, if it believed the Sky package was on the table.
In a sharp response last night, the GAA said that at the start of the tender process, it told TG4 that it would âaccept bids on any of the packages on offerâ.
A spokesperson said: âWe appreciate that the board of TG4 may have had the desire to increase the number of matches that they broadcast but that was not relayed to us by their negotiating team.
âIt is our understanding that TG4 did not have the financial resources to make an additional bid. If we were prepared to give away our rights for free then all parties, Virgin, RTĂ and Eir, would have been interested.
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âIt is worth noting that our strategy with the National Leagues was not to pursue a subscription model as we had previously with Eir but to go free-to-air with RTĂ and TG4 across both Saturday and Sunday.â
In 2022, the GAA would go on to announce a five-year broadcast rights deal that enabled RTĂ to keep 31 live championship matches, while streaming service GAAGO secured the rights to 38 games: 22 All-Ireland football championship games, nine from the hurling championship and seven Tailteann Cup games.
A number of well-placed sources in independent broadcasters have questioned why the GAA did not reopen negotiations with other broadcasters after Sky walked away.
Last summer, concerns were also raised about the number of popular championship matches placed behind a paywall.
Virgin Media was issued a statement at the time which said that âwhen Sky Television decided not to renew its GAA rights, the GAA did not approach other broadcasters to ascertain whether they would be interested in broadcasting these games but arbitrarily decided to put them behind a paywallâ.
This was contested by the GAA, which said that Virgin Mediaâs statement included âseveral factual errors and misleading commentsâ.
Hardly where more of their govt money should be going
Considering the CLG founding ethos of the promotion of all things Irish, the language and culture, those pulling the strings have gone out of their way to do the complete opposite
Powers?
TG4 has done more to hone my understanding of GAA cliches tri Gaeilge than any other single source.
Govt money well spent.
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NĂ thuigim
Who are the powers pulling the strings to deny the promotion of all things Irish? The GAA have a huge amount of content on TG4.