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''The Sunday Game'' is RTÉ's main Gaelic games
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programme. It is shown on
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every Sunday during the
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and Hurling Championship seasons. It is one of RTÉ2's longest-running shows, having been on air since
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, one year after the channel first began broadcasting. It celebrated its 30th season in 2008.


Gaelic games broadcasting


Early years

Gaelic football and hurling have always been at the heart of broadcasting in
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from its earliest days. 2RN, Ireland's first radio broadcasting station, was established on 1 January 1926 and, from the outset, sports coverage, albeit infrequent, was a feature of the schedules. Early broadcasts consisted of team announcements and short reports on events of interest. 2RN, however, recorded a broadcasting first on 29 August 1926. On that day former hurler and renowned Gaelic games journalist, P. D. Mehigan, carried a live commentary of Kilkenny's
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. It was the first live radio broadcast of a field game outside of the
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. When Telefís Éireann was established on 31 December 1961, the new television station became interested in the broadcasting of the national games. The
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, however, were wary the live television coverage would result in lower attendances at games. Because of this, the association restricted annual coverage of its games to the All-Ireland hurling and football finals, the two All-Ireland football semi-finals and the two Railway Cup finals. The first time that Gaelic games were seen on Irish television was on 17 March 1962 when Telefís Éireann carried live coverage of the Railway Cup hurling final between Munster and
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. The football decider followed this. Before then highlights of games were shown on cinema newsreels filmed by the National Film Institute (now the IFI), while highlights of the 1959 All-Ireland hurling final were broadcast by the
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commentating. Since 1962, however, the broadcasting of Gaelic games, albeit limited, became a key part of the new television station's schedule. On 5 September 1971 history was made again when
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's defeat of Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final was the first game to be broadcast in colour.


''The Sunday Game''

The first edition of ''The Sunday Game'' was broadcast on
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on Sunday, 8 July 1979. Introduced by Jim Carney, it showed only one match; the Munster hurling final between Cork and
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; Cork won 2–14 to 0–9.
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also co-presented the first edition of ''The Sunday Game'' with Jim Carney. For the early years financial and logistical reasons restricted the programme to featuring just one full championship game and discussion about it. The show, however, soon expanded featuring coverage of one or more of the day's main championship games, followed by extended highlights of the other major games of the day. This format still continues. ''The Sunday Game'' was only a few weeks old when it courted its first controversy. On 29 July 1979 the programme showed the
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football final between
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and
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. Dublin narrowly won the game, however, Jimmy Keaveney was sent off for a foul on Offaly's Ollie Minnock. In the discussion about the game analyst Liz Howard put forward the view that the sending off was very harsh. The following day the ''
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'' newspaper carried the headline: 'TV personality supports Jimmy Keaveney' on the front page. Howard subsequently attended a Leinster Council disciplinary committee meeting and spoke on Keaveney's behalf, however, he received a one-month suspension. For most of the 1980s, RTÉ was still restricted to just showing live coverage of the All-Ireland finals and semi-finals in both hurling and football. This changed in 1989 when the Munster hurling final between Tipperary and Waterford was broadcast live for the first time. Since then RTÉ has gained the rights to show all of the provincial hurling and football finals live as well as many other earlier provincial and qualifier games. The station broadcasts these and many other games under "The Sunday Game Live" banner. This programme usually contains live coverage of two games. In 2007 ''The Sunday Game'' broadcast 50 live championship games. In 2008 the programme broadcast 40 live championship games due to the fact that rival broadcaster, TV3, was granted the rights to show live championship games for the first time ever. ''The Sunday Game'' programme only covers the championship season from May to September. All of the GAA's National League games are screened on
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and
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, while ''
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'' on RTÉ Two provides highlights of some of these games. When a hurling or football game is shown live on Saturday or Monday – the latter becoming more common during Summer Bank Holiday weekends – the appropriately customised title ''The Saturday Game'' or ''The Monday Game'' is used. Previously ''The Game on Monday'', a second selection of highlights, had also been aired, before being dropped in 2000. Live coverage of Championship matches in the UK on
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will use the RTÉ feed and until 2014 TV3's coverage. Aside from the two senior championships, ''The Sunday Game Live'' previously covered the finals of four other championships: the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship and the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship in 2014 these rights went to
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. RTÉ still shows the Senior, Intermediate and Junior All-Ireland Camogie Championship finals and has in recent seasons expanded its coverage to show the Quarter and Semi Finals of the senior championship. For the minor (under-18) matches, the commentary is traditionally in the
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and was performed by Micheal O Sé. The All-Ireland Ladies Football Championship senior and junior finals were also formerly covered, but are now shown on
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as part of a title sponsorship deal. The 18 July 2010 episode was a special edition that had an audience of special guests to discuss. An important recent development is the live broadcast throughout the world of championship football and hurling matches by Sky TV.


Presenters, pundits and commentators

''The Sunday Game’s'' first edition was presented by
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-based print journalist Jim Carney. External commitments, however, resulted in him stepping aside as presenter the following year. Former
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hurler, footballer, referee and sports journalist Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin took over in 1980. He remained at the helm as presenter for two seasons before being replaced by Carney once again.
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replaced Carney in 1984 as part of a revamp of the show, coinciding with the centenary year of the GAA. When the show later expanded to feature live games, Lyster presented both ''The Sunday Game Live'' and The Sunday Game's highlights programme later the same evening. Both shows were presented from the
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, however, a further expansion of the programme in 2004 saw Lyster presenting ''The Sunday Game Live'' from the venue of the big match. Because of this former
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footballer and analyst Pat Spillane took over as presenter of the Sunday night highlights show. From the 2009 season Des Cahill replaced Spillane as host of the Sunday night highlights programme. In October 2022, Cahill announced that he would be stepping down from his role as host after 15 seasons of hosting. In the early years, the programme's chief commentator was
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, however, he only provided commentary for the senior All-Ireland finals. Mick Dunne,
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, Jim Carney and Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin all served as part of the commentary team in the early years. In 1980, Ger Canning joined the commentary team, becoming the programme's chief commentator following O'Hehir's retirement due to illness in time for the All-Ireland finals of 1985. He has commentated on every senior All-Ireland final since then, with Mícheál Ó Sé providing commentary in the
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on all All-Ireland semi-finals and finals in both codes in the minor grade. In the late 1980s,
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became the latest addition to ''The Sunday Game’s'' commentary team. He frequently commentates on provincial finals and All-Ireland semi-finals and has commentated on the All Ireland Hurling finals of 2017 and 2018 for RTÉ TV. An expansion of the programme in the 2000s (decade) saw Darragh Maloney become the latest member of the commentary team. During the early and mid 1990s, Anne Cassin was the first women reporter and presenter. ''The Sunday Game'' has always shown an innovative approach in its use of match analysts. In its very first season the makers of the programme made the brave decision to include Liz Howard as one of their main analysts. Howard was an
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camogie winner who was the daughter of Garrett Howard, one of
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's all-time hurling greats. Other analysts during the programme's first season included Enda Colleran, a former
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footballer, and Dave Weldrick, trainer of the Thomond College team that won the
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club football title. Throughout the years ''The Sunday Game'' has featured many of hurling and football's greatest players as analysts and pundits. These include: Hurling:
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Eddie Brennan Edward Joseph Brennan (born 2 October 1978) is an Irish hurling manager and former player. His league and championship career with the Kilkenny senior team lasted twelve seasons from 2000 until 2011. Brennan was the manager of the Laois seni ...
, Jimmy Brohan, D. J. Carey, Éamonn Cregan, Anthony Daly, John Doyle, Michael Duignan, Cyril Farrell,
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, Paul Flynn,
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, Liam Griffin, Thomas Ryan,
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Phil 'Fan' Larkin Philip Francis "Fan" Larkin (born 5 October 1941) is an Irish former hurler who played as a right corner-back at senior level for the Kilkenny county team. Born in Kilkenny, Larkin first played competitive hurling during his schooling at Kil ...
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, Tomás Mulcahy,
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. Football:
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, Martin Carney, Enda Colleran, Paul Curran, Tony Davis,
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, Jim McDonnell,
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Theme music

For the 2004 season of the programme, RTÉ replaced the long-standing theme tune of ''The Sunday Game'', ''Jägerlatein'', composed by
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, with a completely different composition. This was met with much comment (RTÉ had previously re-arranged the theme, then reverted to the original), and was likened to other iconic themes like the ones from ''
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'' and ''
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'' being replaced. The new theme was used through to 2006 and was then replaced by another different theme in 2007. On 10 May 2008, RTÉ announced that the original theme would return, with a new arrangement, for the 2008 season.


See also

* ''
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References


External links

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