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Liam Miller tribute match to be shown live on Virgin Media Sport

The broadcaster will also have highlights on its free-to-air channel, Virgin Media One.

THE LIAM MILLER tribute match, which will take place in front of a 45,000 capacity crowd at Cork’s Páirc Uí Chaoimh, will be broadcast to a wider audience on Virgin Media Sport, it has been announced.

The broadcaster — formerly TV3 — has reached an agreement to carry live coverage of the eagerly-anticipated memorial match between a Manchester United XI and Republic of Ireland/Celtic legends on its new dedicated sports channel on Tuesday 25 September. 

Liam Miller dejected Miller sadly passed away aged 36 in February. Ryan Byrne / INPHO Ryan Byrne / INPHO / INPHO

While Virgin Media Sport is available at no additional cost to Virgin Media TV customers, a monthly subscription for the channel currently costs €20 on a 30-day contract.

Highlights of the game will be available on a free-to-air basis on Virgin Media One, with all proceeds from the broadcast, including advertising and sponsorship revenues, to be donated to the Liam Miller Fund.

Former Ireland international Miller sadly passed away after a short battle with pancreatic cancer in February of this year, aged 36. 

A host of his former Ireland, Manchester United and Celtic team-mates — including Roy Keane, Denis Irwin, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Robbie Keane and Damien Duff — will line out in Cork later this month in his memory.

Tickets for the game sold out weeks in advance and all proceeds will go to Miller’s young family and various charities, including Marymount Hospice. 

Virgin Media Sport’s coverage will begin at 2pm, with the game kicking-off at 3pm. 

“We are delighted to announce that live coverage of the match will be broadcast on Virgin Media Sport on 25 September,” Chairman of the organising committee, Michael O’Flynn, said. 

“The match will feature some of the game’s greatest ever players and it is a fitting tribute to Liam that sporting fans throughout the country will be able to enjoy this one-of-a-kind match thanks to Virgin Media Sport.”

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    Mute Tommy C
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    Sep 4th 2018, 8:49 PM

    Is anyone after actually reading the story? All proceeds including advertising and sponsorship are going to the charity. I’m not getting the negativity here. Some people seem to think it should be free to air so they can sit on their holes safe in the knowledge that they contributed nothing and enjoyed their free spectical compliments of the Miller family

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    Sep 4th 2018, 9:24 PM

    @Tommy C: 100%…..this place never ceases to amaze me.

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    Mute Declan Moran
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    Sep 4th 2018, 6:50 PM

    Typical on a channel that you have to be a subscriber to. They could have shown this on one of their free to air channels

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    Sep 4th 2018, 6:59 PM

    @Declan Moran: You’d make a great tv executive.

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    Sep 4th 2018, 7:02 PM

    @Declan Moran: better on eir than not at all though surely

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    Sep 4th 2018, 7:11 PM

    @Tweety McTweeter: yeah i guess. Bleed people for every penny you can eh

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    Sep 4th 2018, 7:55 PM

    @Gareth Keenan: except it’s on virgin

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    Sep 5th 2018, 9:28 AM

    @Declan Moran: did you miss the bit where all proceeds including advertisments and sponsorships are going to charity?

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    Sep 4th 2018, 8:29 PM

    Doesn’t the article say that all proceeds from the broadcast will go to charity. Moan moan moan

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    Sep 4th 2018, 7:17 PM

    They should donate the subscriptions to the charity cause.

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    Sep 4th 2018, 11:17 PM

    @Eugene Tyson: They are. I’m not sure how the article was unclear on that

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    Sep 5th 2018, 10:04 AM

    @Conflex: Some people can’t read.

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    Sep 4th 2018, 8:20 PM

    Shame on you virgin making profit from this match.
    All proceeds should go to charity.

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    Mute Daniel Roche
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    Sep 4th 2018, 8:30 PM

    @Eddie Mc Keown: I’m fairly sure they are paying a nice bit of money so they can show the match,so that means the chairty are getting money for it too.

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    Sep 5th 2018, 6:47 AM

    @Eddie Mc Keown: read the article ….

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    Sep 5th 2018, 1:38 PM

    @Eddie Mc Keown: moron

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    Sep 4th 2018, 10:54 PM

    ticketmaster are making money on it also

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    Mute Dave O Keeffe
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    Sep 5th 2018, 1:41 PM

    @Joe Barry: is tickets.ie owned by Ticketmaster?

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    Sep 5th 2018, 4:24 PM

    @Dave O Keeffe: no

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