WE’RE ALL MISSING it something serious, but this excellent video montage should certainly bring back a few GAA memories — some happy, some not so much depending on where you’re from — and have you more excited than ever for its return.
RTÉ producer Elaine Buckley has pieced together this stunning promotion video for The Sunday Game, which returns tomorrow night with classic action and reaction, accounts from players on the frontline and the latest news from the world of Gaelic Games.
The Sunday Game returns this weekend with classic action and reaction, accounts from players on the front-line and the latest news from the world of Gaelic Games. GAA President John Horan joins @sportsdes in studio tomorrow night on @rte2 at 9:30pm pic.twitter.com/aX4ymEXKlG
— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) May 9, 2020
GAA president John Horan will be among the guests joining Des Cahill in studio, and the programme — which puts the 2018 All-Ireland hurling semi-final between Galway and Clare and Dublin and Mayo’s 2017 football thriller under the microscope — will air on RTÉ Two and RTÉ Player at 9.30pm.
Beautifully made, the montage brings together some of the most memorable and iconic moments from through the years to the sound of The Boys Of Summer, and it finishes with a beautiful shot of Croke Park and the message, ‘This Too Shall Pass’ on the screen.
Give it a watch… or ten. We’ll warn you first, you could get emotional.
‘There’s something in the air, the summer’s out of reach...’ Certainly not The Sunday Game 2020 season opener that I had in mind to make at the start of the year, but here we are... 🎥 pic.twitter.com/NkluxmWunH
— Elaine Buckley (@ElaineBucko) May 9, 2020
- Originally published at 10.49
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Whatever about our rivalries we all share the same passion for our beautiful games and we all share in the same highs and lows following club and county. There won’t be a man woman or dog across the country that will take them for granted again.
@Mel Roberts: The rivalries add to the atmosphere at games. I even miss standing drenched, freezing and getting a slagging.
@Mel Roberts: for sure. Couldn’t agree more with you Mel. When all this is done we should try arrange a game & porter after it
@my name: definitely lad. Craic would be good
@Mel Roberts: bagsy marking you!!
@Mel Roberts: ye all Mel. Not all of us..thanks!
@Logan Shepherd: You summed it up beautifully. Never again will I complain about standing in the open terrace in Cusack Park in Ennis at halftime in February in some pointless league match getting a hiding from Kilkenny listening to that terrible tinny version of Whiskey on a Sunday.
A summer without gaa is not a summer
We take so much for granted, maybe we will appreciate it all the more when it returns. Up the Banner.
@Michael Bermingham: Hon Gaillimh.
@tribesman: Maigh Eo Abú.
@Logan Shepherd: hon the lillies
@Brian Dunne: Up the Dubs
@my name: god be with the days we used to put it up to yiz in leinster
@Brian Dunne: some craic alright. Great days and nights in The Big Tree after
@my name: won’t beat it.
@Michael Bermingham: up London.
@Etherman: up down
Super job rte.
@Pauly Kells: makes a change as RTE usually have a pro-immigrant liberal and anti-Irish agenda.
@Rocky Rocks: a typically backward stance from a religious nutcake.
Stunning.
An absolutely class piece and well put together, jeez we should be hopping off the turf tmw in Cork:(
@Now or Never: and bouncing the big ball off Waterford
Great video. As someone already said a summer without GAA is not a summer.
Up the Dubs.
Great job, well done. Gaa supporters all over the country deserve great credit for bringing such great atmosphere with them on match days. All mixed in together, the shouting, singing, banter, and slagging is amazing. Well done to you all and I look forward to doing it all again. 202? MO SAM ..
@Logan Shepherd: Agree 1000%. Maigh Eo abú!
Makes me long for those summer evenings kicking many wides in junior championship football :(
Fire everyone else in rte and put the person who made this in charge
Maybe, just maybe the so called weaker counties will get some coverage now.
Fed up watching a live game on a Saturday or Sunday only for it to be 80% of the Sunday game too.
There are 32 counties in Ireland , all of them filled with talented players- not all of them have the funding to succeed at the highest level , but please show some respect and give these players some air time.
And the Kingdom will come again !!
@Sean Treacy: come 2nd, after Dublin :)
@Sam Greene: I take it youre a blue shirt
@Sam Greene: I take it youre a blue shirt
@Sean Treacy: just a blue Jersey Sean, big, huge difference between blue Jersey and a blue shirt :)
Goosebumps …from sitting in a wind swept stadium mid October waiting for a first round GAA match to start
Who’s idea was it to put a cover of Boy’s of Summer over this video? Surely to jaysus there are a load of Irish songs they could have used ? No offence to the singer but a cool video like that could have had a better soundtrack really IMO.
@Barry Teehan: personally thought it was pretty cool tbh, especially the first 4 lines of it. Pretty much sums up the current situation.
@Barry Teehan: It is an Irish singer…Paul Noonan and BellX1 with a wonderful version of the song.
@Barry Teehan: https://www.the42.ie/elaine-buckley-promo-piece-for-the-sunday-game-5096125-May2020/
Really thought it was Wicklows year this time, ah well.
This is amazing
Tiobraid Árann abú!
It’s the worst I ever seen
@Fionnbarra O Nuallain: agreed…the music is good, the basic video footage is good but the syncopation is ALL WRONG…the editor will NOT be joining Ken Burns production team !!!
Just gotta trump up to Sky now to see games..
Looking forward to it although Horan being on spoils it somewhat.