Former GAA President Liam O'Neill believes "better choices" need to be made regarding the broadcasting of live championship games.
His comments come after Tánaiste Micheál Martin stated that the decision to air championship games on a pay-per-view basis should be reviewed.
In accordance with the five-year GAA broadcast rights agreement, which was announced in October, RTÉ would continue to broadcast 31 live championship matches while GAAGO would have exclusive rights to 38 games.
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The 38 games would include 22 football championship games, nine hurling championship fixtures, and seven Tailteann Cup matches.
O'Neill - the GAA President from 2012 to 2015 - said "better choices" need to be made regarding coverage. During his tenure, GAAGO was introduced, and the association signed its first broadcasting rights agreement with Sky Sports.
"It's very easy to say that all games should be free-to-air," O'Neill told RTÉ Radio 1's Morning Ireland.
"We have 15 games next weekend. No television station could cover all those. And indeed, not every game is probably worthy of being put on national television.
"GAAGO was first introduced along with the Sky deal a number of years ago. I was part of that decision. It was for overseas people who wanted to access the games and it worked very well.
"It was a pay-per-view situation, as it is now. But there was no great controversy because it was people outside Ireland who were paying it.
"The GAA decides which broadcasters get games, it's the broadcaster that decides which games are put on.
"The solution is simple. RTÉ prioritise the games as they come do not leave out important hurling games out of the schedule. GAAGO will work really well if the important games are given priority (on RTÉ) and GAAGO broadcast the games that wouldn't otherwise get coverage if it wasn't there.
"If I was in RTÉ and the GAA, I would look at the schedule now and make sure this doesn't happen again. You have to learn from your mistakes. I'm not putting blame here, I'm just saying mistakes were made. We lost two great hurling games and we can't afford to do that again."
The platform has broadcast several high-profile hurling matches in the early weeks of the championship, but in a fortnight, the focus will switch to football.
O'Neill questioned the matches remaining behind a paywall but acknowledges broadcasters "can't cover every game."
"They shouldn't be behind the paywall. But - and I'm speaking in favour of RTÉ here - you can't cover every game," O'Neill added.
"Years ago, we didn't have games on television and this controversy wasn't there. Now it's there because we have the choice and choices have to be made.
"And I think better choices have to be made and I think in view of this controversy, better choices will be made.
"Streaming is good if you have good broadband. Unfortunately, the Tánaiste didn't mention this, I live in rural Ireland and we have very poor internet coverage. That was a factor at the weekend too.
"We were watching the dots going around in the middle of the screen and it just wasn't good enough."
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