RTÉ and Irish Football
The FAI and RTÉ have agreed a new deal for live coverage of the Ireland Women’s National Team for the next two years.
The new deal across television and radio will see RTÉ cover all of Ireland’s games through to the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup, including the 2025 UEFA Nations League, International Friendlies and World Cup qualifiers.
The agreement extends a partnership that has been in place since 2019, where RTÉ’s coverage has continued to grow in tandem with the team’s success and reached a peak audience of 659,000 during the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
With SSE Airtricity Men’s and Women’s Premier Division coverage secured by Virgin Media and TG4 in recent weeks, and Sky Ireland as the main commercial partner of the Republic of Ireland teams, it is good to have a place still for the national public service broadcaster.
Sky and Darts
LIV Golf and ITVX
This week’s LIV Golf event in Riyadh is the first to be broadcast on the new partnership with ITVX.
The streaming platform will also have highlights on ITV4 and more content.
It becomes the only Free to Air golf in the UK and adds to the deal that the tour signed with Fox Sports in the US ahead of this season.
Women’s Sport TV Viewing in the UK
Free to Air coverage of Women’s sport on the BBC accounted for 37 per cent of the total viewing time for Women’s sport in the UK in 2024, with Sky Sports accounting for 34 percent and ITV 24 per cent.
In total there were 164 million viewing hours of women’s sport and viewership of 45.2 million across the year.
Leinster Rugby Documentary Kicks Off On Streaming
As well as access to the camps, meetings, training sessions and match day environments of the team, the Leinster cameras also followed star players Hannah O’Connor, Ruth Campbell and Eimear Corri away from their sport to get to know the players and their journeys a little better.
Episode One went live on Leinster Rugby + on Thursday night.
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