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\nIreland’s home games in their quest to qualify for the 2027 World Cup will have live Irish-language commentary<\/p>\n
RT\u00c9 has announced it will expand its Irish-language commentary on major international rugby and soccer fixtures.<\/p>\n
Beginning with the Men’s Six Nations Championship game on Saturday between England and Ireland, Irish commentary will be available live on RT\u00c9 Player and the RT\u00c9 News channel.<\/p>\n
Irish language commentary will also be available during Ireland v Wales on 6 March and France v England on 14 March.<\/p>\n
RT\u00c9 began broadcasting the All-Ireland hurling and football finals live in Irish in 2015 and has continued its commitment to significantly expand the service year after year.<\/p>\n
Irish-language commentary will be available on approximately 35 sports fixtures throughout 2026 including football, hurling, camogie, rugby and soccer live on the RT\u00c9 Player and on the RT\u00c9 News channel.<\/p>\n
Niamh N\u00ed Churn\u00e1in, Group Head of Irish Language, RT\u00c9, said: “Sport brings audiences together, and delivering those unforgettable moments ‘as Gaeilge\u2019 is central to our public service mission. This year, in partnership with RT\u00c9 Sport, we\u2019re expanding the number of events with Irish language commentary.<\/p>\n
“We begin with England v Ireland in the Six Nations, with Garry Mac Donncha and Colm de Buitl\u00e9ar – the first of many major sporting moments RT\u00c9 will deliver in both languages.”<\/p>\n
Ireland\u2019s games in the Women\u2019s Six Nations Championship will also be broadcast in Irish on RT\u00c9, including England v Ireland on 11 April and Ireland v Wales on 9 May.<\/p>\n
Live Irish-language commentary will also be available for the crucial World Cup play-off semi-final for the Republic of Ireland soccer team against Czechia at the Fortuna Arena in Prague on 26 March, along with commentary and analysis of the Boys in Green’s home matches in the UEFA Nations League in the autumn.<\/p>\n
\nIreland’s home games in their quest to qualify for the 2027 World Cup will have live Irish-language commentary<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s soccer international matches will also be covered, beginning with the World Cup qualifier against France on 3 March.<\/p>\n
Garry Mac Donncha will lead the commentary team with co-commentary and analysis from Colm de Buitl\u00e9ar and Deirbhile Nic a Bh\u00e1ird (rugby) and Charlie McGeever (soccer) and many others.<\/p>\n
Irish-language commentary on the All-Ireland football, hurling and camogie championships will begin in May, with matches broadcast every weekend until August. Alongside commentators Garry Mac Donncha and Cu\u00e1n \u00d3 Flatharta, co-commentary and analysis will be provided by Dara \u00d3 Cinn\u00e9ide, Pat Fleury and a host of other former players.<\/p>\n
On RT\u00c9 Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta, live commentary, analysis and reporting can be heard from all corners of the country every weekend on Sp\u00f3rt an tSathairn, Sp\u00f3rt an Tr\u00e1thn\u00f3na and Sp\u00f3rt an Lae, with the 2026 All-Ireland football and hurling leagues now underway, as well as the latest news, fixtures and results from the biggest sporting events over the weekend.<\/p>\n
List of games<\/p>\n
Six Nations (Men)
21 February – England v Ireland
6 March – Ireland v Wales
14 March – France v England<\/p>\n
Six Nations (Women)
11 April – England v Ireland
9 May – Ireland v Wales<\/p>\n
Soccer (Men)
26 March – World Cup play-off semi-final – Czechia v Republic of Ireland
31 March – World Cup play-off final or friendly – Republic of Ireland v TBC
1 October – UEFA Nations League – Republic of Ireland v Austria
4 October – UEFA Nations League – Republic of Ireland v Israel
8 November – FAI Cup final
17 November – UEFA Nations League – Republic of Ireland v Kosovo<\/p>\n
Soccer (Women)
3 March – World Cup qualifier \u2013 Republic of Ireland v France
18 April – World Cup Qualifier – Republic of Ireland v Poland
5 June – World Cup Qualifier – Republic of Ireland v Netherlands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 has announced it will expand its Irish-language commentary on major international rugby and soccer fixtures. Beginning with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-302435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302435","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=302435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}