Sky Sports has secured a four-year deal to screen the RaboDirect Pro12 from the start of the 2014/15 season. For the first time, the British satcaster will show 30 live matches, plus the tournament’s semi-finals and final. The RaboDirect Pro12 features top teams from Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Italy, including Europe’s number one ranked side, […]
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Ireland-England game on Setanta
Setanta Sports will show Ireland’s two friendly internationals against England at Wembley and Spain at the Yankee Stadium in New York live. The England game is on Wednesday, May 29th, while the match against Spain is on Tuesday, June 11th, with kick-off at 1am on the 12th, Irish time. ITV will also broadcast the England […]
Setanta set for Cheltenham
Setanta Sports has released a package for next week’s Cheltenham Festival. The sports channel will broadcast 12 hours of live coverage with 20 live races. There will be eight hours of preview and reviews with racing experts Don McClean and Stephen Cullinane. Setanta Sports are now the advertising sales agency for the Racing Post daily newspaper, […]
John Giles way offside
OPINION PIECE In his column in today’s Evening Herald, John Giles writes about cheaters who must be brought to book. He highlights the wrongs of footballers who dive to cheat and get decisions when they are obviously guilty of making a farce of the beautiful game. Giles singles out Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger for specific […]
Marketing plea for boxing after Katie Taylor wins Olympic gold
RTE TV pundit Mick Dowling has called on the Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) to up its marketing and better promote the sport following Katie Taylor’s Olympic gold medal win at London 2012 today. Dowling, a record eight times national senior bantam champion, said boxing needs to professionally marketed in Ireland if the sport is […]
Paddy Power pays Bendtner’s fine
Paddy Power has paid the €100,000 fine imposed by Uefa on Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner for revealing a pair of green boxer shorts with the bookmaker’s logo during Denmark’s Euro 2012 game against Portugal. They said they were paying the fine in reaction to social media comments. The penalty by Uefa sparked a debate yesterday […]
Robbie Keane book launched
A new book about Ireland’s football captain Robbie Keane written by Irish Daily Star soccer writer Paul Lennon is on sale in book stores nationwide from today. Robbie: A Striker’s Story profiles the Tallaght-born striker who has scored 53 goals in 115 games for his country. Since his professional debut with Wolves in 1997, he […]
Rugby fans to watch games at home
Most Irish people will watch the RBS Six Nations rugby games at home instead of the pub, a survey conducted by Empathy Research for Checkout magazine indicates. About 62 per cent of the 1,003 people interviewed say they intend watching Ireland compete in this year’s championships. Of those, 87 per cent will watch it at […]
Setanta releases schools rugby pack
Setanta Sports has announced an advertising package for the forthcoming schools rugby tournament which runs from the start of February to the end of March. The €2,800 price gives advertisers 40 30-second spots. If advertisers request position fixing, a 33 per cent surcharge applies, sales director John Devlin said. A report in today’s Irish Times […]
Arsenal to compensate fans
Arsenal Football Club is to offer its fans who travelled to Old Trafford for yesterday’s humiliating defeat to Manchester United a free ticket to an away game in this season’s Barclays Premier League. Manchester United beat Arsenal 8-2, with Wayne Rooney scoring a hat-trick and new signing Ashley Young adding a brace. Following yesterday’s result, […]
Shamrock Rovers to play Spurs
Shamrock Rovers have been drawn in the same group as Tottenham Hotspur in the Europa League. Michael O’Neill’s side are in group A along with the London club, Russian outfit Rubin Kazan and Greek side PAOK Salonika. Rovers is the first League of Ireland side to qualify for the group stages of a European competition. […]
Fabregas bids adios to Gunners
Cesc Fabregas will sign for FC Barcelona today after completing a medical. Barcelona and Arsenal are understood to have agreed an initial £25 million deal, with various add-ons bringing it to €35m in all. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said he regretted losing the Spanish midfielder but conceded that Fabregas,24, was set on rejoining his boyhood […]
