{"id":366697,"date":"2026-03-26T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/366697\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:32:07","slug":"funeral-of-michael-lyster-takes-place-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/366697\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral of Michael Lyster takes place in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funeral ceremony for former RT\u00c9 Sport broadcaster Michael Lyster has taken place in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old, best known for presenting The Sunday Game for over three decades, died last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Family and friends gathered in the Victorian Chapel, in Mount Jerome in Harold&#8217;s Cross for the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Among mourners present were people he shared the TV studio with including former Cork hurler Tom\u00e1s Mulcahy, Derry&#8217;s Joe Brolly, and Cyril Farrell, former manager of the Galway hurling team.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e1draic Joyce, the current Galway football manager, was also in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>President Catherine Connolly was represented by her aide-de-camp.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0010c744-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nMichael Lyster presented The Sunday Game for over three decades<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lyster joined RT\u00c9 in 1979 and became a household name around the country for anchoring the station&#8217;s GAA coverage.<\/p>\n<p>He also featured in RT\u00c9&#8217;s coverage of the Olympic Games and other major events.<\/p>\n<p>He retired from The Sunday Game at the end of 2018 after presenting coverage of the All-Ireland football final.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Lyster is survived by his wife Anne, and his four children Mark, Jack, Rebecca and Ellen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funeral ceremony for former RT\u00c9 Sport broadcaster Michael Lyster has taken place in Dublin. The 71-year-old, best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-366697","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\/366697","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=366697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}