''Monday Night Soccer'' is a former football television programme shown on

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each Monday evening during the football season. Presented by Peter Collins, he was usually joined by two guests, like manager Damien Richardson and former

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striker Richard Sadlier. Broadcast weekly on Monday evenings live from RTÉ studio 5, every League of Ireland Premier Division game was shown. In July and August editions of the show, it showed

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and

Europa League The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. It ...

matches, involving participating

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clubs. TV3 owned the rights to a long-running weekly

highlights programme until 2007. In 2008, a deal was struck between RTÉ and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), due to end in 2013. As a part of that deal, RTÉ broadcast this show weekly and showed some matches live on its ''Airtricty League Live'' programme. The first edition was broadcast on Monday 10 March 2008, presented by Tony O'Donoghue. Broadcast at the earlier time of 7 pm (previously 8 pm), as opposed to the 11:30 pm Monday night slot occupied by its TV3 predecessor, ''eircom League Weekly'' (which was repeated Tuesdays at 5 pm), Con Murphy presented most of the shows; however, when covered the Beijing Olympics in August 2008, Tony O'Donoghue filled in and did so when Con was unavailable. Eamonn Donohoe and Stephen Alkin reported and it was shown on the RTÉ website. ''

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'' reported in November 2008 that the programme's poor viewing figures made a move to a different time slot in 2009 a possibility; however, this was not the case and the show returned to its regular time slot.

Roddy Collins Roderick Collins (born 7 August 1962), is an Irish former professional football player and manager. During a playing career of 18 years, Collins played for many sides across England, Ireland and Northern Ireland. While towards the end of his ...

left the sofa after he was appointed manager of Maltese club

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in June 2009. He returned in a number of months after being sacked as manager of Floriana. After the show's cancellation, it was replaced by

Soccer Republic ''Soccer Republic'' is RTÉ's main football television programme. It is shown on RTÉ Two on Monday nights during the Irish football season, showing highlights of recent matches in Irish football's top division, the League of Ireland Premier Divis ...

which airs at a later time on Monday nights than its predecessor and also shows highlights of each of the previous weekend's Premier Division matches.

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