RTÉ has revealed details of its summer season across all media and sport is as ever very much to the fore.
New Group Head of Sport Declan McBennett will be in place on June 1st in time for the FIFA World Cup which gets underway in Russia on June 14th.
All 64 games from the tournament will be shown live with 56 on RTÉ2 and the other 8, where times are clashing, on the RTÉ Player.
The GAA Championship will be covered in full with Michael Lyster in the chair for his final season when the live action kicks off on Sunday, May 13th. Full details of RTÉ’s GAA coverage will be unveiled this coming weekend with Sky’s matches to be covered revealed next week.
RTÉ will also broadcast coverage of the first ever multi-sport European Championships taking place in Berlin and Glasgow from August 2nd to 12th.
Set to be staged every four years, it will feature world class sporting action in athletics, swimming, cycling, gymnastics, rowing, triathlon and golf.
The summer sporting action also includes cricket, with highlights of Ireland’s historic first ever test against Pakistan and T20 internationals against India, plus racing from Galway and the Curragh, live international soccer as the Republic of Ireland take on France and the USA, as well as SSE Airtricity League Live.
Away from the live action, there will be two documentaries aired for the first time.
With exclusive access to Tommy Bowe in the months leading up to his retirement from professional sport, The End Game will be an honest and personal account of what sports people must face when it comes to the end of their career.
The Game is a major new three-part social history series, produced in association with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, which will provide a definitive history of hurling, celebrating and chronicling a truly unique part of Irish culture through more than 100 years of bitter rivalries, dominance, triumphs, upsets and comebacks.
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