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In 1926, RTÉ broadcast the first field game in Europe. The GAA match was broadcast live on the radio station 2RN, RTÉ's predecessor. RTÉ Sport is probably the second most significant of the categories since often hundreds of thousands would watch The Sunday Game, with probably more than a million watching on the day of the All-Ireland Final.
Billy Coleman (born 8 May 1947) is an Irish motorsport rally driver. Nicknamed Millstreet Maestro, Billy Coleman is one of Ireland's most successful motorsport rally drivers [1] and in twenty years of racing has claimed 29 victories, [citation needed] including a number of British Rally Championship and Irish Tarmac Rally Championship titles. [2]
The 2024 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final, the 137th event of its kind and the culmination of the 2024 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, was played at Croke Park on 21 July 2024 between Clare and Cork.
The first Irish sports award ceremony took place in 1985, and was closely modelled on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.. Four people have won the award multiple times: athlete Sonia O'Sullivan won the award five times, including a record three successive awards, and golfer Pádraig Harrington and boxer Katie Taylor, with three wins, and golfer Rory McIlroy, who won it twice.
The award is decided by RTÉ Sport department editorial staff. The award was introduced in 2011 in recognition of the huge effort made behind the scenes and on the sidelines. [1] The first recipient of the award was association football manager Giovanni Trapattoni. The award has been presented to people representing a wide range of sports.
Two years later in 1980 he joined the national broadcaster, Radio Telefís Éireann, as a member of the station's sports department. As a fluent Irish -speaker his first All-Ireland final commentary was on RTÉ 2 in 1981, because the station then had a policy of using the two channels for commentaries in both English and Irish.
In 2019, Martin co-drove Elfyn Evans with M-Sport World Rally Team with which they achieved two third places as their best results. Martin followed Evans to the Toyota team in 2020 and won his first WRC rally in Sweden , followed by a win in the Rally of Turkey.
Stars Go Racing was a six-part reality programme which aired in the summer of 2011 on RTÉ One. [1] Six Irish personalities were shown the business of horse training from six established Irish trainers and then competed against each other at race meetings in Ireland. The final of the competition took place at Leopardstown. The first episode ...