Sports broadcasting contracts in the Republic of Ireland

This article refers to sports broadcasting rights in the Republic of Ireland. For a list of sports broadcasting rights in other countries, see List of sports television broadcast contracts.

Viewers in the Republic of Ireland can watch sports on Irish channels such as RTÉ One, RTÉ Two, Virgin Media Sport, TG4, eir Sport 1 and eir Sport 2. They can also view Pay-TV networks such as Sky Sports, BT Sport, Eurosport, Eleven Sports Network and ESPN. They can also access Northern Ireland's version of Sports broadcasting contracts in the British networks of the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and S4C on satellite and cable.

Gaelic Games

Broadcasting Contracts for Gaelic Games (Television)
Event Broadcaster Broadcast Details
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship RTÉ [1] Live: Up to 31 games exclusively, including all Provincial Finals & two All-Ireland Quarter-Finals. All-Ireland Semi-Finals & All-Ireland Final shown on a simulcast basis with Sky.
Highlights: Sunday night programme
Sky Sports [1] Live: Up to 14 games exclusively, including two All-Ireland Quarter-Finals. All-Ireland Semi-Finals & All-Ireland Final shown on a simulcast basis with RTÉ.
Highlights: Midweek programme
BBC Sport [1] Live: Ulster SFC games shown on a simulcast basis with RTÉ
Deferred: Ulster SFC games not shown on RTÉ.
TG4 [1] Highlights: Monday night programme
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship RTÉ [1] Live: Up to 31 games exclusively, including both Provincial Finals & both All-Ireland Quarter-Finals. All-Ireland Semi-Finals & All-Ireland Final shown on a simulcast basis with Sky Sports.
Highlights: Sunday night programme
Sky Sports [1] Live: Up to 14 games exclusively. All-Ireland Semi-Finals & All-Ireland Final shown on a simulcast basis with RTÉ.
Highlights: Midweek programme
TG4 [1] Highlights: Monday night programme
All-Ireland Minor Football Championship TG4 [1] Live: All-Ireland Semi-Finals & Final exclusively
All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship TG4 [1] Live: All-Ireland Semi-Finals & Final exclusively
International Rules RTÉ Live: in 2017
Allianz Football League TG4 [1] Live: Up to three games on Sunday afternoons. (Two live and one deferred)
Highlights: Monday night programme
eir Sport [1] Live: Up to three games on Saturday nights.
RTÉ [1] Highlights: Sunday evenings
Allianz Hurling League TG4 [1] Live: Up to three games on Sunday afternoons. (One live and one deferred)
Highlights: Monday night programme
eir Sport [1] Live: Up to three games on Saturday nights.
RTÉ [1] Highlights: Sunday evenings
All-Ireland Club Senior Football Championship TG4 Live: Sunday afternoon games
eir Sport Live: up to 30 matches
All-Ireland Club Senior Hurling Championship TG4 Live: Sunday afternoon games
eir Sport Live: up to 30 matches
All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship TG4 Live
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship RTÉ Live
All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship TG4 [1] Live
All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship TG4 [1] Live
All-Ireland Intermediate and Junior Club Championships

Association football

Rugby Union

Broadcasting Contracts for Rugby Union (Television)
Event Broadcaster Broadcast Details
Rugby World Cup eir Sport [4] Live: All 48 matches in 2019
TBC
Free-to-air rights: [4]		 Live: 13 games including Ireland's Pool games, as well as all knockout-stage matches in 2019.
Six Nations Championship Virgin Media Sport channels & Virgin Media One [5] Live: All fifteen games up to 2021.
Ireland Autumn Internationals RTÉ [6] Live: All Ireland home games until 2021.
Sky Sports Live: until 2018
England Autumn internationals Sky Sports Live: until 2020
Scotland Autumn Internationals BT Sport Live: in 2018
Wales Autumn Internationals BT Sport Live: in 2018
The Rugby Championship and SANZAAR test Sky Sports Live: until 2020
Guinness Pro14 S4C [7] Live: Up to 17 games.
Eir Sport Live: All games.
TG4 Live: Up to 34 games.
Ulster Bank All-Ireland League RTÉ [6]
English Premiership BT Sport Live: up to 80 matches per season until 2020-21
Channel 5 Live: up to 5 matches per season and highlights of all other matches
English Championship Sky Sports Live: Minimum of 11 matches per season until 2020
Heineken Champions Cup BT Sport [8] Live: All matches until 2022.
Virgin Media Sport Live: up to 9 matches live (including one quarter-final, one semi-final and a final); plus highlights of all other matches until 2022[9]
TG4 Highlights:
European Rugby Challenge Cup BT Sport [8] Live: All matches until 2022.[10]
TG4 Highlights: (Irish Teams highlights)
Women's Rugby World Cup eir Sport [4] Live: in 2017
RTÉ Live:
Top 14 Sky Sports [11] Live: up to 55 matches per season until 2019
Women's Six Nations Championship RTÉ Live: Ireland games
Six Nations Under 20s Championship RTÉ Live: Ireland games
Rugby World Cup Sevens eir Sport Live:
World Rugby Sevens Series Sky Sports Live:
eir Sport
World Rugby Under 20 Championship eir Sport Live:
Schools Rugby eir Sport

Golf

Boxing

Mixed Martial Arts

Broadcasting Contracts for Mixed Martial Arts (Television)
Event Broadcaster Broadcast Details
UFC BT Sport [12] Live: until 2018
eir Sport Deferred:
Virgin Media Sport Deferred:
Cage Warriors BT Sport Live:
BAMMA Dave [13] Live:
Bellator Channel 5
Spike (UK)
KSW eir Sport[14] Live: Exclusive coverage of KSW 40: Dublin.
Highlights: All events from 2016 & 2017 in weeks leading up to KSW 40.

Tennis

Olympics

Athletics

Cricket

Horse Racing

Motor Sport

Broadcasting Contracts for Motor Racing (Television)
Event Broadcaster Broadcast Details
Formula One eir Sport [15] Live: Coverage of all Practice, Qualifying & Races until the end of the 2018 season.
Sky Sports [16] Live: Coverage of all Practice, Qualifying & Races.
Sky Sports to show every F1 race exclusively live from 2019 until 2024.
Channel 4 [17] Live: Ten Races per season until the end of the 2018 season.
Deferred: All other races until the end of the 2018 season.
MotoGP BT Sport [18] Live: Coverage of all Practice, Qualifying & Races across MotoGP, Moto2 & Moto3 classes until the end of the 2018 season.
Channel 5 [19] Highlights: Monday night programme.
Formula E Virgin Media Sport [20] Live: Coverage of all fourteen races from the 2017-2018 season.
Channel 5 [21] Live: Coverage of all races until the end of the 2017-2018 season.
Eurosport [22] Live: Coverage of all races from until 2020 and selected qualifying sessions.
Deferred: Coverage of selected qualifying sessions.

Snooker

Broadcasting Contracts for Snooker (Television)
Event Broadcaster Broadcast Details
Triple Crown Events
World Snooker Championship BBC [23] Live: until 2024
Eurosport [24] Live: until 2026
Masters BBC [23] Live: until 2024
Eurosport [24] Live: until 2026
UK Championship BBC [23] Live: until 2023
Eurosport [24] Live: until 2025
Other Events
Home Nations Series
(English Open, Welsh Open,
Scottish Open & Northern Ireland Open)		 Eurosport [25] Live: All afternoon & evening sessions.
QUEST Live: All afternoons sessions and both sessions of finals.
Highlights: All evening sessions.
Champion of Champions ITV4 [26] Live:
World Grand Prix ITV4 [26] Live:
Players Championship ITV4 [26] Live:
World Snooker Shoot-Out ITV4 [26] Live:
Other Snooker events Eurosport [24] Live: Eighteen other events each season until 2026.

1: ^ with the exception of the Welsh Open which is broadcast free-to-air on BBC Wales.

Cycling

Sailing

Greyhound Racing

Field Hockey

Basketball

Broadcasting Contracts for Basketball (Television)
Event Broadcaster Broadcast Details
Super League [27] TG4 Live: Coverage of Men's and Women's National Cup Finals.
Highlights: Weekly highlights show broadcast both on television and online through the channel’s website and Facebook live platform.
NBA [28] BT Sport Live: up to 200 games per season, including every game of the NBA Finals as well as the Western Conference and Eastern Conference finals.

Show Jumping

Notes

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "GAA confirm media rights for 2017-2022". GAA.ie. 9 December 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
    2. ↑ "Subscribe Football". eirsport. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
    3. ↑ "Dailymotion to show Polish football". Broadband TV News. 2015-06-29. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
    4. 1 2 3 "Blow for free-to-air viewers as eirSport secure 2019 Rugby World Cup". The Irish Times. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
    5. ↑ "TV3 unveils its plans for coverage of Six Nations". The Irish Times. 8 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
    6. 1 2 "RTÉ Sport to broadcast Autumn Internationals until 2021". Irish Times. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
    7. ↑ "BBC - BBC Wales and S4C announce four-year Pro12 Rugby rights deal - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
    8. 1 2 "BT Sport And Sky Sports Announce European Broadcast Deal". irishrugby.ie. 10 April 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
    9. ↑ Stroud, Conor (2018-10-11). "Where can I watch the Heineken Champions Cup?". European Professional Club Rugby. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
    10. ↑ "One pay-TV broadcaster and free-to-air coverage for Champions Cup rugby". www.epcrugby.com. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
    11. ↑ "Sky Sports have signed the rights to the Top 14, France's premier rugby competition". Sky Sports. 18 April 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
    12. ↑ "BT Sport extends UFC broadcast rights deal". BT.com. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
    13. ↑ "BAMMA signs multi-event television deal with Dave". mmaplus.co.uk. 27 April 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
    14. ↑ "KSW coming to eir Sport". eir Sport. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
    15. ↑ "Introducing eir Sport: a new name in Irish Broadcasting" (PDF). eir Sport. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
    16. ↑ "F1 coming to Sky Sports". Sky Sports. 29 July 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
    17. ↑ "Channel 4 becomes terrestrial home of Formula 1". Channel 4. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
    18. ↑ "BT Sport to bring MotoGP™ to British audiences from 2014". MotoGP. 9 May 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
    19. ↑ https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2017/03/15/motogp-highlights-join-channel-5-in-the-uk/221038
    20. ↑ "TV3 Group to show all Formula E races and more in Season Four". TV3 Group. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
    21. ↑ "FIA Formula E is coming to Channel 5". Channel 5. 6 September 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
    22. ↑ "Formula E broadens partnership with Eurosport across Europe". Formula E. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
    23. 1 2 3 "BBC and World Snooker extend broadcast agreement to 2024". World Snooker. 8 December 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
    24. 1 2 3 4 "Eurosport 10-year agreement". World Snooker. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
    25. ↑ "Eurosport and Quest cue up live Home Nations". World Snooker. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
    26. 1 2 3 4 "Snooker's global footprint keeps growing". World Snooker. 29 August 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
    27. ↑ "Basketball Ireland signs new three-year broadcast deal with TG4". Basketball Ireland. 24 September 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
    28. ↑ "BT Sport agrees multi-year NBA broadcast deal". BT Sport. 28 March 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
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