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Roscommon Racecourse is one of five racetracks nationwide which have rejected a Horse Racing Ireland-negotiated €200m broadcasting deal in a dispute over distribution of media rights funding. The five-year deal on exclusive broadcasting rights to all 26 racecourses across Ireland was due to be signed on Tuesday of this week, but five venues – including Roscommon, Kilbeggan and Sligo – refused to sign. It means that races from the five tracks may not be broadcast on Racing TV from 2024 on. Now United Irish Racecourses (UIR) – which comprises of Roscommon, Kilbeggan, Limerick, Thurles and Sligo racecourses – is calling on Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue to intervene in the row. Roscommon Racecourse and the other four members of UIR say they would have been victims of “inequitable” distribution of media rights funding. Roscommon-Galway Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice was due to raise the stand-off at an Oireachtas committee meeting last night (Wednesday). Full story on page 3.
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