{"id":181288,"date":"2025-12-08T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181288\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:03:10","slug":"all-ireland-ladies-sfc-final-not-being-televised-live-due-to-junior-eurovision-scheduling-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181288\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland Ladies SFC final not being televised live due to Junior Eurovision scheduling conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday\u2019s All-Ireland Senior Club Ladies Football final will not be televised live on TG4 because of a scheduling clash with the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n<p>The 4pm Croke Park decider between five-in-a-row chasing Kilkerrin-Clonberne and first-time finalists, St Ergnat\u2019s Moneyglass of Antrim, won\u2019t be shown live on television as it throws-in at the same time as TG4\u2019s broadcasting of Junior Eurovision, and will instead be shown live on the TG4 player and station\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There will also be a deferred television showing of the senior final later on Saturday evening at 8.10pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Saturday\u2019s All-Ireland Intermediate Club Ladies Football decider between Caltra of Galway and Kilkenny\u2019s Muckalee, which has a 2pm start, will be broadcast live on television by TG4 before coverage of the senior final then reverts to the TG4 Player and station\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Conversations between TG4 and the LGFA in recent weeks did explore the possibility of flipping the order of the two finals, so the senior decider could be broadcast live on television at 2pm, but this was ultimately decided against.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Following a series of questions to the LGFA to establish what other avenues were explored to try and find a workaround to the scheduling clash, the Ladies Football association said \u201cthe 2pm and 4pm throw-in times were agreed in conjunction with TG4\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4890572_4_articleinline_Junior_20Eurovision.jpg\" alt=\"Lottie O'Driscoll Murray will represent Ireland at the 2025 Junior Eurovision Song Contest at 4pm on TG4 today.\" title=\"Lottie O'Driscoll Murray will represent Ireland at the 2025 Junior Eurovision Song Contest at 4pm on TG4 today.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Lottie O&#8217;Driscoll Murray will represent Ireland at the 2025 Junior Eurovision Song Contest at 4pm on TG4 today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">TG4 Head of Sport R\u00f3n\u00e1n \u00d3 Coisdealbha told the  Irish Examiner that they \u201clooked at every single option\u201d to have the senior ladies football final shown live on their linear channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">TG4 have had a full series of programming every Sunday for the last three months to select the Irish entry for this weekend\u2019s Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which is taking place in Tbilisi, Georgia. TG4 coverage of the song contest begins at 4pm on Saturday, the same time as Kilkerrin-Clonberne and St Ergnat\u2019s Moneyglass throws-in at GAA HQ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Junior Eurovision Song Contest has typically taken place on a Saturday evening in late November, but the move to mid-December for the 2025 edition has delivered the clash with the concluding fixture of the club season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe have had a lot of conversations with the LGFA, Croke Park, with our schedulers, with everything,\u201d continued TG4 Head of Sport R\u00f3n\u00e1n \u00d3 Coisdealbha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe are putting the senior final on two platforms, so it is going to go out on Sport TG4 YouTube and the TG4 player, and it will be available on both platforms worldwide, so we are making it as accessible as possible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This weekend represents the climax of both the camogie and ladies football club seasons. Sunday\u2019s All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie final between St Finbarr\u2019s of Cork and Galway champions Athenry will be shown live on RT\u00c92 (4.15pm throw-in).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday\u2019s All-Ireland Senior Club Ladies Football final will not be televised live on TG4 because of a scheduling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1965,1128,61,60,43,850],"class_list":["post-181288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-hurling","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}