2017 National Football & Hurling League on TV

lukin

Maybe I missed it in the news but are any of the league games being televised this year? Last year Setanta (now called eir) showed them but I googled for it and I couldn't find anything.
It's two weeks to the first round of fixtures, you'd think they would have announced something by now.

Fr Tod Umptious

Yep they are on Eir Saturday nights and TG4 on Sunday afternoons

lukin

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Yep they are on Eir Saturday nights and TG4 on Sunday afternoons

Thanks. They haven't advertised them very much though. Maybe they will start doing it in the next two weeks.

RD10

anyone have a list of the matches being broadcast?

lukin

RD10 wrote: »

anyone have a list of the matches being broadcast?

That's actually why I posted; there is only a fortnight before the league starts and there hasn't been any announcement from eir or TG4 about what games they are showing. That's why I thought there are no games being televised live.

ProudDUB

lukin wrote: »

That's actually why I posted; there is only a fortnight before the league starts and there hasn't been any announcement from eir or TG4 about what games they are showing. That's why I thought there are no games being televised live.

Have you not checked the Eir or TG4 websites? That's where I got the TG4 broadcast schedule for the first round of games. I posted it in the Donegal thread last night. Am in work now, so can't throw it up here.

munchkin_utd

ProudDUB wrote: »

Have you not checked the Eir or TG4 websites? That's where I got the TG4 broadcast schedule for the first round of games. I posted it in the Donegal thread last night. Am in work now, so can't throw it up here.

here it is so

Allianz League 05.02.17 @ 1.30pm (Live)
Cavan v Dublin
Allianz League 05.02.17 @ 3.40pm (Deferred)
Donegal v Kerry

as for Eir tv, now, it doesnt take Sherlock holmes to figure out the likely fixtures , for instance the only div 1 game on the first Saturday.
Saturday, February 04, 2017, 19:00
Round 1 - Elverys MacHale Park, Castlebar
Mayo v Monaghan

And only one div 2 game that evening:
Saturday, February 04, 2017 19:00
Round 1 - Páirc Esler, Newry
Down v Fermanagh

lukin

Thanks for that munchkin; I don't watch TG4 much so maybe they have been promoting those games on it. The eir games I'd be more interested in as they are in English. I suppose we'll find out what games they are showing too soon enough.

Sands81

lukin wrote: »

Thanks for that munchkin; I don't watch TG4 much so maybe they have been promoting those games on it. The eir games I'd be more interested in as they are in English. I suppose we'll find out what games they are showing too soon enough.

Seriously lukin you are more interested in eir games as they are in English. I don't speak a huge amount of Irish myself but watching a game in Irish doesn't put me off. You don't always have to have commentary on to understand whats going on either. After watching a few games you will pick up enough vocab to understand whats going on. Commentary in Irish is doing no harm and it is a nice tradition that many seem to like and but for TG4 we would not have much coverage of league games and many other grades.

seligehgit

Sands81 wrote: »

Seriously lukin you are more interested in eir games as they are in English. I don't speak a huge amount of Irish myself but watching a game in Irish doesn't put me off. You don't always have to have commentary on to understand whats going on either. After watching a few games you will pick up enough vocab to understand whats going on. Commentary in Irish is doing no harm and it is a nice tradition that many seem to like and but for TG4 we would not have much coverage of league games and many other grades.

Totally concur.TG4's GAA coverage is top class.

lukin

I wonder which channel gets first choice of the games each weekend? I suppose it is eir as they are paying more money for for the rights. In fact are TG4 paying the GAA anything for the games?

Brian017

There's no choice as far as Eir is concerned. They fixtures were announced by the GAA months ago, Eir can't move a Sunday game to Saturday night because they want a "better" game.

ProudDUB

lukin wrote: »

I wonder which channel gets first choice of the games each weekend? I suppose it is eir as they are paying more money for for the rights. In fact are TG4 paying the GAA anything for the games?

Of course they are. There is no way the GAA are going to hand over the rights to intercounty games, for free.

ShamoBuc

Sands81 wrote: »

Seriously lukin you are more interested in eir games as they are in English. I don't speak a huge amount of Irish myself but watching a game in Irish doesn't put me off. You don't always have to have commentary on to understand whats going on either. After watching a few games you will pick up enough vocab to understand whats going on. Commentary in Irish is doing no harm and it is a nice tradition that many seem to like and but for TG4 we would not have much coverage of league games and many other grades.

seligehgit wrote: »

Totally concur.TG4's GAA coverage is top class.

Absolutely correct. TG4 has absolutely fantastic coverage of gaa and rugby for that matter. As a fluent speaker, I find it better than rte, but you don't have to be. League , club and u21 matches means they really have a savage amount of matches and do a seriously good job.

PTH2009

http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=265378

Saturday 4 February

AIB All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Semi-Final
St Thomas’ (Galway) v Ballyea (Clare), Live from Semple Stadium, Thurles (5pm)

Sunday 5 February

Allianz Football League – Round 1
Live: Cavan v Dublin, Kingspan Breffni Park, Cavan
Deferred: Donegal v Kerry, O'Donnell Park, Letterkenny

Saturday 11 February

AIB All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship Semi-Finals
Slaughtneil (Derry) v St Vincents (Dublin), Páirc Esler, Newry (2pm)
Corofin (Galway) v Dr. Crokes (Kerry), Gaelic Grounds, Limerick (4pm)

Sunday 12 February

Live: Kilkenny v Waterford, Nowlan Park, Kilkenny (Allianz Hurling League – Round 1)
Deferred: Roscommon v Donegal, Dr.Hyde Park, Roscommon (Allianz Football League – Round 2)

Saturday 18 February

Independent.ie Sigerson Cup Final - Live from the Connacht GAA Centre, Mayo

Sunday 19 February

Allianz Hurling League – Round 2
Live: Waterford v Tipperary, Walsh Park, Waterford
Deferred: Clare v Kilkenny, Cusack Park, Ennis

Saturday 25 February

Independent.ie Fitzgibbon Cup Final, Live from Pearse Stadium, Galway (1:00pm, hosted by NUIG)
AIB All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Semi-Final - Cuala (Dublin) v Slaughtneil (Derry), Athletic Grounds, Armagh (3pm)

Sunday 26 February

Allianz Football League – Round 3 (Live match and deferred match)

Sunday 5th March

Allianz Football League – Round 4 and Allianz Hurling League – Round 3 (Live match and deferred match)

Friday 10 March

Gradaim an Uachtaráin (GAA President Awards), Live from Croke Park at 7:30pm

Sunday 12 March

Allianz Hurling League (Round 4) - Live match and deferred match

Live coverage of the O’Connor Cup Final from Elverys McHale Park, Castlebar

Friday 17 March

AIB All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling and Football Championship Finals, Live from Croke Park

Sunday 19 March

Allianz Football League (Round 5) - Live match and deferred match

Sunday 26 March

Allianz Football League (Round 6) and Allianz Hurling League (Round 5) - Live match and deferred match

Sunday 2 April

Allianz Football League (Round 7) and Allianz Hurling League Quarter Finals (Live match and deferred match)

Saturday 8 April

Allianz Football League Finals – Division 3 & 4 Finals

Sunday 9 April

Allianz Football League Finals – Division 1 & 2 Finals

Saturday 15 April

All-Ireland U21 Football Championship Semi Finals

Sunday 16 April

Allianz Hurling League – Semi Finals

Sunday 23 April

Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League Final
Allianz Hurling League Final

Saturday 29 April

All-Ireland U21 Football Final

Sunday 30 April

Lidl Ladies Football Division 3 and 4 League Finals

Sunday 7 May

Lidl Ladies Football Division 1 and 2 League Finals

PlayByTheRules

EIR look to have a good few hurling matches, Cork vs Clare and Cork vs Dublin plus Tipperary vs. Kilkenny. One or two others also. As a Virgin Media customer I cannot get EIR, does GAA Go cover these games? Or maybe EIR have an online option to access these games for a set fee? Any ideas anyone?

PTH2009

eir Sport's Allianz League schedule 2017:

04/02/17: Mayo v Monaghan (F)
04/02/17: Down v Fermanagh (F)
04/02/17: Laois v Louth (F)

11/02/17: Dublin v Tipperary (H)
11/02/17: Cork v Clare (H)
11/02/17: Dublin v Tyrone (F)
11/02/17: Kerry v Mayo (F)

18/02/17: Cork v Dublin (H)
18/02/17: Laois v Offaly (H)

25/02/17: Mayo v Roscommon (F)
25/02/17: Laois v Tipperary (F)
25/02/17: Down v Meath (F)

04/03/17: Dublin v Waterford (H)
04/03/17: Cavan v Donegal (F)
04/03/17: Dublin v Mayo (F)
04/03/17: Tyrone v Monaghan (F)

11/03/17: Tipperary v Kilkenny (H)
11/03/17: Laois v Limerick (H)

18/03/17: Kerry v Dublin (F)
18/03/17: Donegal v Tyrone (F)
18/03/17: Down v Kildare (F)

25/03/17: Dublin v Roscommon (F)
25/03/17: Laois v Longford (F)

i have Virgin so cant watch any of this games so will have to find another method (there are well known methods available too watch Eir Sports)

seligehgit

Great afternoon's GAA tomorrow on TG4.

Live coverage of Cavan v Dublin.

Deferred coverage of Donegal v Kerry.