eir Sport have announced that the first fixtures in the AIB Club Championship to be broadcast on their channels will go out live from Donegal this Sunday, September 10th.
They are a very local element of what is a very international range of sporting fixtures that were unveiled yesterday in Dublin.
The Club Championship, together with the Allianz Football and Hurling Leagues were part of the new five year deal on GAA media rights signed earlier this year.
The UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League, the Premier League, rugby’s European Champions Cup, and more will be shown on the eir Sport Pack which includes BT Sport with all its rights and is available free in Ireland to anyone who signs up to the eir Broadband network.
In Sport for Business tomorrow we will have an in depth interview with Glen Killane, Managing Director of eir TV and Sport on the place that he sees for eir in the ever changing landscape of sports broadcasting.
A top-class team of talent were on hand at eir HQ yesterday for the season launch.
Former Republic of Ireland internationals Shay Given, Kenny Cunningham and Keith Andrews were joined by current Ireland women’s international Karen Duggan and BT Sport pundit Robbie Savage to focus on the football side.
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They were joined to talk GAA by Kerry great Marc Ó Sé and double All-Ireland winning captain of Clare Anthony Daly. Daly recently stepped down from his coaching role at the University of Limerick and is one of the candidates believed to be in the mix for the vacant Dublin Hurling Managers post.
BT Sport Ambassador Brian O’Driscoll was also talking to journalists about Munster’s back to back fixtures against Leicester Tigers and Leinster’s back to back games against the Exeter Chiefs in the Champions Cup, all of which are exclusively live on the pack.
In a historic first for eir Sport, their cameras will be in MacCumhail Park, Ballybofey for a double header of action in the Donegal Senior Football championship this weekend as Kilcar face Realt na Mara and Gaoth Dobhair take on St Eunan’s at the quarter final stage.
Up to 30 live games from the AIB Club Championships will be broadcast this season alone in year one of the new five-year deal with the GAA. The Allianz Leagues will return in their Saturday night slot next Spring, with more ‘red button’ broadcasting leading to a greater than ever range of counties being shown in live action.
“The message of top quality National and International Sport for free with eir Broadband is really resonating with our customers,” said Killane speaking at the launch.
“We are just over a year old and we are growing, innovating and improving all the time. The breadth and quality of the sport we are launching today is testament to that.
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