Updated 17.00pm
RTÉ HAVE CONFIRMED that they will televise this Saturday’s Leinster hurling replay between Dublin and Galway in Tullamore.
Last Sunday’s drawn clash in Croke Park was broadcast live on The Sunday Game with the replay fixed for O’Connor Park next Saturday afternoon at 4.45pm.
RTÉ this afternoon announced that Michael Lyster will present The Saturday Game Live coverage on RTÉ 2 from 4.30pm with Eddie Brennan and Tomás Mulcahy providing the analysis.
Marty Morrissey is on commentary duty and he’ll be joined by Donal O’Grady.
Saturday’s clash is part of a double-header and acts as a curtain-raiser to the Leinster football tie between Kildare and Laois which is Sky Sports first live game of the 2015 season.
RTÉ’s coverage of the UEFA Champions League final on Saturday between Barcelona and Juventus will now commence at 6.45pm directly after The Saturday Game Live.
Brilliant! Glad to hear the boys are in good spirits!
Starting of reading I thought it was going to be another Saipan.
Glad it worked out well for the European Champions and hopefully the World Champions!
COYBIG!!!
@Ollie Fitzpatrick:
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@Ollie Fitzpatrick: i was just about to cry!
Sounds like a great day was had by all. So important to have learnt the lessons of the disastrous last RWC on French soil under Eddie O’Sullivan. The 2nd ranked team in the world in 2007, the players were housed for 2 Wks in a Bordeaux hotel beside a industrial estate, and all training was behind closed doors. Not a single fan day, with 30,000 Ireland supporters holidaying in the area and couple of thousand more in on short breaks for both Bordeaux games. The overtrained Golden generation blundered their way to a win over Namibia and last gasp one score win over a limited Georgia (who hadn’t a single bacon of note), then went up to Paris and were mullered by France & Argentina. I suffered through all the games (actually a brilliant world cup, if you weren’t an Ireland fan following them).
Wise man is Andy Farrell, he seems to always come up with words of wisdom in sport and in life, decision to go ahead and meet locals, get feel for the people, tournament etc. Lets hope he continues to nail it in the weeks ahead……..
@Arjuna: and better yet, he always backs it up!
Bring it on!