Rural GAA: ‘I see ex-players congratulating their kids on playing for Dublin minors. That’s lost potential’
“Much of this money has gone towards funding major capital development on the big racecourses. This has killed the development of many small racecourses and the creation of jobs in rural Ireland,” UIR’s secretary and Kilbeggan managing director Paddy Dunican said on Sunday. In October that committee gave “preferred bidder” status to Satellite Information Services and Racecourse Media Group , which operates the pay-per-view channel Racing TV.
Nevertheless, how the money is divided up and, particularly, how much HRI keeps for providing data is at the heart of a wrangle that has torn down any semblance of a united front. “However, in some of the smaller racecourses, HRI takes 20 per cent, but only takes half this from some of the race meetings at larger racecourses by the way the contract is structured.