20 Live televised GAA games this summer
14 games are exclusive to RT television
RT Radio 1 has exclusive National Radio rights to GAA coverage
Extensive free-to-air coverage across television, radio, RT Player and RT .ie
Catch up on all the weekend's action and reflective analysis each Sunday night on The Sunday Game
RT 's spectacular Summer of Sport steps up a gear this weekend with the much-anticipated launch of the 2021 GAA Championship season. RT Sport will bring viewers and listeners to every GAA championship match this summer with pre-match excitement and reflective post-match analysis. Insightful commentary will bring the action straight into homes all across the country. RT Sport will provide extensive free-to-air coverage from the beginning to the end of the championship season and will continue into the autumn with club action from local communities from all four provinces. Who will Create the Future and be named champions for 2021? Who will the breakout stars of this championship season be, securing their place in history?
RT will broadcast 20 live televised games this summer, 14 of which are exclusively live and free-to-air. (please see notes to editors for full list of fixtures). Highlights include live coverage of all six provincial finals in football and hurling, as well as the All-Ireland semi-finals and finals in both codes, along with the Joe McDonagh Cup final.
Television coverage starts this Sunday, 27th June, as the Munster Hurling Championship begins with rivals Clare and Waterford facing each other once again in Semple Stadium, Thurles (Throw in 3.30pm) The Ulster GAA Senior Football Championship will see Down v Donegal (Throw in at 1pm.) 200 lucky supporters will be attendance at both games. RT Radio 1 has the exclusive national radio rights to broadcast GAA and, this weekend alone, RT Radio teams will broadcast from 15 matches across both Saturday and Sunday. There will be live commentary from Croke Park on Saturday for both the Division 2 and Division 1 Ladies Football National League finals.
Joanne Cantwell will be in studio for the Sunday Game Live on each match day, along with a team of panellists for pre-match build up, comprehensive analysis at half time and after the final whistle has been blown. Match commentary will be provided by Marty Morrissey, Ger Canning and Darragh Moloney. Des Cahill will once again round up the weekend's action each Sunday night on The Sunday Game. Studio panellists will include, amongst many others, Henry Shefflin, Brendan Cummins, Donal g Cusack, Jackie Tyrell, Anthony Daly, Tom s ' S , Colm Cooper, Pat Spillane, amonn Fitzmaurice, Ciar n Whelan, Colm O' Rouke, Kevin McStay, Ois n McConville, Sean Cavanagh, Anna Geary, Noe lle Healy and Ursula Jacob.
On RT Radio 1 every weekend, Jacqui Hurley, Darren Frehill, John Murray, Joanne Cantwell and Des Cahill will present Saturday Sport and Sunday Sport. Pauric Lodge will be right there on the side-line bringing the noise and colour from the pitch straight to your home. John Mullane, Shane McGrath, Miche l Donoghue, Brian Carroll, Kate Kelly and Aoife Sheehan are amongst the radio panellists for hurling and camogie each weekend. Martin McHugh, Kyle Coney, John Casey, Eamon O' Hara, Aidan O' Rourke, Denise Masterson, Cora Staunton and Fiona McHale will cast a critical eye over Gaelic football.
The Throw-In is new to Friday nights on RT Radio 1. Damian Lawlor will have all the latest news, interviews and previews ahead of the weekend's Gaelic Games Championship action. Game On on RT 2FM continues weekdays from 6pm throughout the summer with all the latest Championship reaction and analysis.
RT Raidi na Gaeltachta will be bringing listeners a bumper summer of sports coverage as they have Irish-language radio rights to all GAA Championship matches, and will have live commentary, reporting and analysis on its sports shows, with coverage of up to twenty football matches, and fifteen hurling games. Analysts will include Kevin Cassidy, Michael Rice, Lorc n M irt n, Tom s S , Coman Goggins, M ire N Bhraon in, Tom s Flatharta, Joe Connolly, Cathal Moore, Pat Fleury, Gary Brennan, Stephen Joyce and Charlie Vernon.
Commenting ahead of a massive weekend for RT Sport, Declan McBennett, Group Head of Sport, RT , says: The Championship is an integral part of any sporting year regardless of timing and is central to RT Sport across all platforms. The thrill of championship clashes and the rivalries both local and across provinces is the stuff that memories are made of which each year producing new heroes for each generation. RT Sport puts a huge value on being central to each and all of those stories on tv radio news and online.
AND THERE'S MORE
RT 2 & RT Player
The Sunday Game Live will see Joanne Cantwell anchoring a comprehensive package of 20 live games in High Definition, across this summer's GAA Championships starting at 12.55 PM on Sunday 27 June. Des Cahill will return that evening at 9.30 PM with the first Sunday Game evening highlights show of the year.
RT will once again be providing Irish Language commentary in both football and hurling for this year's Championship, your commentary team of Garry MacDonncha, Dara Cinn ide and Pat Fleury will be bringing you all the action from this weekend onwards.
The RT Player will have the rights to The Sunday Game Live and The Sunday Game for the island of Ireland only, 7 days, all platforms.
RT Radio 1 & RT 2FM
RT Radio will this summer offer the very best action in hurling and football with a comprehensive range of commentary and analysis right through the GAA Championships. RT Radio 1 has the full exclusive national coverage of every match in both hurling and football with commentaries featured on Saturday Sport and Sunday Sport which a
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20 Live televised GAA games this summer 
