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 free-to-air channels RTÉ One, RTÉ Two, Virgin Media One, Virgin Media Two, Virgin Media Three, TG4, and on pay-TV networks such as Virgin Media Sport, Eir Sport, Sky Sports, BT Sport, Premier Sports, FreeSports and Eurosport. They can also access Northern Ireland's version of British networks such as BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 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

Futsal

Rugby Union
Broadcasting Contracts for Rugby Union (Television)
Event Broadcaster Broadcast Details
Rugby World Cup eir Sport [9] Live: All 48 matches in 2019
RTÉ [9][10] Live: 14 matches (opening match, all Ireland matches, and all 8 knockout-stage matches) in 2019.
Six Nations Championship Virgin Media Sport[11] Live: All fifteen games on One until 2021.
Ireland Autumn Internationals RTÉ [12] Live: All Ireland home games until 2021.
England Autumn internationals Sky Sports Live: until 2020
Scotland Autumn Internationals Premier Sports Live: in 2018
Wales Autumn Internationals Channel 4 Live: in 2018
The Rugby Championship and SANZAAR test Sky Sports Live: until 2020
Guinness Pro14 S4C [13] Live: Up to 17 games.
Eir Sport Live: All games.
TG4 Live: Up to 34 games.
Ulster Bank All-Ireland League RTÉ [12] Live: Final
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 [14] 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[15]
TG4 Highlights:
European Rugby Challenge Cup BT Sport [14] Live: All matches until 2022.[16]
TG4 Highlights: (Irish Teams highlights)
Women's Rugby World Cup eir Sport [9] Live: in 2017
RTÉ Live:
Women's Six Nations Championship RTÉ Live: Ireland games on RTÉ 2, other matches on RTÉ Player
Six Nations Under 20s Championship RTÉ Live: Ireland games
Rugby World Cup Sevens eir Sport Live:
World Rugby Sevens Series Sky Sports Live:
RTÉ Highlights:
World Rugby Under 20 Championship eir Sport Live:
Schools Rugby FreeSports

Golf

Boxing

Mixed Martial Arts
Broadcasting Contracts for Mixed Martial Arts (Television)
Event Broadcaster Broadcast Details
UFC BT Sport [17] Live: All Events
eir Sport Deferred:
Virgin Media Sport Deferred:
Cage Warriors BT Sport Live:
BAMMA Dave [18] Live:
Bellator Channel 5 Live: Coverage of European Fights
Virgin Media Sport Live: Coverage of European Fights
KSW eir Sport[19] 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 Details
Formula One Sky Sports [23] Live: Coverage of all Practice, Qualifying & Races.
Sky Sports to show every F1 race exclusively live from 2019 until 2024.
Channel 4 [24] Live: British Grand Prix only until 2022.
Highlights: All races until the end of the 2022 season.
MotoGP BT Sport [25] Live: Coverage of all Practice, Qualifying & Races across MotoGP, Moto2 & Moto3 classes until the end of the 2021 season.
QUEST [26] Highlights: Monday night programme.
Formula E Virgin Media Sport [27] Live: Coverage of all thirteen races in 2018–19 season on sport channel plus highlights on three Virgin Media Television channels.
BT Sport Live: Complete coverage of all races, all practices, and all qualifying sessions, plus highlights.
Eurosport [28] Live: Coverage of all races and selected qualifying sessions until 2020.
Deferred: Coverage of selected qualifying sessions.
DTM BT Sport Live:

Snooker
Broadcasting Contracts for Snooker (Television)
Event Broadcaster Details
Triple Crown events
World Snooker Championship
BBC [29]
Live: until 2024
Eurosport [30]
 Live: until 2026
Masters
BBC [29]
Live: until 2024
Eurosport [30]
 Live: until 2026
UK Championship
BBC [29]
Live: until 2023
Eurosport [30]
Live: until 2025
Other Events
Home Nations Series
(English Open, Welsh Open,
Scottish Open & Northern Ireland Open)
Eurosport [31]
 Live: All afternoon & evening sessions.
QUEST
BBC Wales
Live: All afternoons sessions and both sessions of finals.
Highlights: All evening sessions.
Champion of Champions
ITV4 [32]
 Live:
World Grand Prix
ITV4 [32]
 Live:
Players Championship
ITV4 [32]
 Live:
World Snooker Shoot-Out
ITV4 [32]
 Live:
Other Snooker events
Eurosport [30]
 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

Hockey
Broadcasting Contracts for Hockey (Television)
Event Broadcaster Details
Men's Hockey World Cup BT Sport All matches live in 2018
Women's Hockey World Cup
Men's Hockey Pro League BT Sport All matches live until 2021
Women's Hockey Pro League
Irish Hockey League
Irish Senior Cup

Basketball
Broadcasting Contracts for Basketball (Television)
Event Broadcaster Details
Super League
TG4
Live: Coverage of Men's and Women's National Cup Finals.[33]
Highlights: Weekly highlights show broadcast both on television and online through the channel's website and Facebook live platform.[33]
National Basketball Association
Sky Sports
Live: over 170 games per season, including every game of the NBA Finals as well as the Western Conference and Eastern Conference finals until 2022.[34]
EuroLeague
Eurosport
EuroCup

Australian Rules
Broadcasting Contracts for Australian Rules (Television)
Event Broadcaster Details
Australian Football League
BT Sport
Live: up to five games per week, including the Toyota AFL Grand Final, plus a weekly highlights programme.
International Rules Series
RTÉ
Live: in 2017

Show Jumping
Broadcasting Contracts for Show Jumping (Television)
Event Broadcaster Details
Dublin Horse Show
RTÉ
Live:

Notes
    1. "GAA confirm media rights for 2017-2022". GAA.ie. 9 December 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
    2. "RTE and TG4 to show every match of FIFA Women's World Cup this summer". Extra.ie. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
    3. "Sky to televise European U21 Championship - SportsPro Media". www.sportspromedia.com. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
    4. UEFA.com. "Where to watch Under-17 EURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
    5. UEFA.com. "Where to watch Women's Under-17 EURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
    6. "Subscribe Football". eirsport. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
    7. "Premier League broadcast deals for 2019-2022". www.premierleague.com. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
    8. "J1 League". FreeSports. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
    9. "Blow for free-to-air viewers as eirSport secure 2019 Rugby World Cup". The Irish Times. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
    10. "RTÉ acquire live TV rights to Ireland's World Cup games". RTÉ.ie. 21 November 2018.
    11. "TV3 unveils its plans for coverage of Six Nations". The Irish Times. 8 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
    12. "RTÉ Sport to broadcast Autumn Internationals until 2021". Irish Times. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
    13. "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.
    14. "BT Sport And Sky Sports Announce European Broadcast Deal". irishrugby.ie. 10 April 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
    15. Stroud, Conor (11 October 2018). "Where can I watch the Heineken Champions Cup?". European Professional Club Rugby. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
    16. "One pay-TV broadcaster and free-to-air coverage for Champions Cup rugby". www.epcrugby.com. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
    17. "BT Sport extends UFC broadcast rights deal". BT.com. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
    18. "BAMMA signs multi-event television deal with Dave". mmaplus.co.uk. 27 April 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
    19. "KSW coming to eir Sport". eir Sport. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
    20. "Amazon confirms UK deal for ATP World Tour - SportsPro Media". www.sportspromedia.com. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
    21. "Amazon wins exclusive rights to WTA in four-year deal, Prime Video to be the home for tennis in the UK and Ireland". WTA. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
    22. "Eurosport to deliver re-vamped Davis Cup Finals event in multiple markets across Europe". Davis Cup. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
    23. "Sky Sports to show every F1 race live from 2019 until 2024". Sky Sports. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
    24. "Channel 4 and Sky agree Formula One deal". f1.channel4.com. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
    25. Sports, Dorna. "BT Sport to continue as the home of MotoGP™ until 2021". www.motogp.com. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
    26. "Quest secures exclusive free-to-air MotoGP Highlights from 2019". Eurosport UK. 8 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
    27. "TV3 Group to show all Formula E races and more in Season Four". TV3 Group. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
    28. "Formula E broadens partnership with Eurosport across Europe". Formula E. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
    29. "BBC and World Snooker extend broadcast agreement to 2024". World Snooker. 8 December 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
    30. "Eurosport 10-year agreement". World Snooker. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
    31. "Eurosport and Quest cue up live Home Nations". World Snooker. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
    32. "Snooker's global footprint keeps growing". World Snooker. 29 August 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
    33. "Basketball Ireland signs new three-year broadcast deal with TG4". Basketball Ireland. 24 September 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
    34. "Sky Sports and NBA announce four-year broadcast and digital partnership". Sky Sports. 16 October 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
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