The Ladies Gaelic Football Association and championship sponsor TG4 have announced a bumper schedule of live summer action, with every minute of every game available to watch on mainstream free to air TV or on the LGFA’s own streaming platform.

It has been confirmed that all 63 games in the 2021 TG4 All-Ireland Championships will be available to watch live with the action kicking off this Friday night with the meeting of Kerry and Galway on TG4 and continuing through to an All-Ireland Final triple-header from Croke Park on Sunday, September 5, when the Junior, Intermediate and Senior champions will be crowned.

The Friday night fare continues with the Ulster derby clash between Armagh and Cavan on Friday, July 16, while Tipperary will play Meath in another Friday night offering on July 23.

The pivotal Group 4 showdown between Kerry and Donegal is also live on TG4 on Saturday, July 24, while the broadcaster and Championship sponsor will broadcast all four Senior Championship quarter-finals across the August Bank Holiday weekend, along with the Senior Championship semi-finals on Saturday, August 14.

The remaining 50 matches across the Junior, Intermediate and Senior Championships will be available to view live on the LGFA and TG4’s dedicated Championship online portal.

 

Impactful

2021 marks the 21st season of TG4’s sponsorship of the All-Ireland Ladies Football Championships – and the 21st year of live TV coverage of the All-Ireland Finals.  This makes it one of the longest and most impactful commercial partnerships in Irish sport.

31 counties will set out on the road to potential glory, with 13 teams competing in the Senior Championship, 13 in the Intermediate grade, and five in the Junior Championship.  Kilkenny remains the only county not to enter a team.

Peil na mBan Beo will be available to audiences globally on the TG4 Player as well as on the TG4 Mobile and Smart TV App.

Spórt TG4 will also have exclusive behind the scenes action from the championships across its social media channels.

“For 21 years now, TG4 has been the proud sponsor of the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Football Championships, during which time we have been the sport’s exclusive broadcaster and passionate partner of Peil na mBan, said TG4 Ardstiúrthóir Alan Esslemont.

“TG4 is delighted to continue to lead the way, ensuring that women’s sport is front and centre for television audiences.”

“Already this year, we have aired 150 per cent more games from the 2021 Lidl Ladies National Football Leagues.  We will continue to make even more games available to the public, free to air, nationally and internationally across all our broadcast platforms.”

Brilliant

“We’re looking forward to another brilliant season of TG4 All-Ireland Championship Football, coming hot on the heels of a memorable Lidl National League campaign,” added Micheál Naughton, President of the LGFA.

“This is the 21st year of our long-standing partnership with TG4, which continues to go from strength to strength. We’re grateful to our Championship sponsors and official broadcast partner for their continued investment in, and support of, our Championships.”

“We’re in a position, too, where we can welcome back spectators to our fixtures, albeit in a limited capacity for now, but their presence will add to our games and we look forward to welcoming our loyal supporters back through the turnstiles.”

Former Galway star Máire Ní Bhraonáin will lead the Irish language broadcaster’s Peil na mBan Beo coverage once again for the forthcoming season.

She will be joined on live coverage by a top-class team of analysts. Cork legend Rena Buckley, an 11-time TG4 All-Ireland Senior medallist, is on board again alongside Dublin’s Sorcha Furlong, a leading figure in the breakthrough 2010 win for the Sky Blues.

2020 TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate winner and Players’ Player of the Year Vikki Wall will also provide expert insight – and she’s a key member of the Meath team now preparing for Senior Championship fare. Former Waterford star Michelle Ryan, ex-Dublin ace Sinéad Finnegan, and Cork’s Rhóna Ní Bhuachalla, who netted crucial goals in the 2014 and 2016 TG4 All-Ireland Senior Finals, make up the star-studded TG4 team.

A host of leading inter-county stars joined Máire at the stunning Aasleagh Falls, Leenane, County Mayo, to mark the launch of the 2021 TG4 All-Ireland Championships.
In attendance were Dublin’s long-serving star Lyndsey Davey, a five-time TG4 All-Ireland Senior medallist, Armagh’s Blaithín Mackin, Mayo ace Niamh Kelly, and Kerry’s Aishling O’Connell.

The senior players were joined at Aasleagh Falls on the Mayo / Galway border by Intermediate duo Sinéad Kenny  of Roscommon and Fiona Claffey from Westmeath, as well as Junior players Limerick’s Gráinne McLoughlin and Niamh McCarthy.

The Championship will be covered on social media using the hashtag #ProperFan.

 

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