{"id":390169,"date":"2026-04-09T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390169\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:04:09","slug":"fenton-joins-the-sunday-game-for-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390169\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenton joins The Sunday Game for new season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RT\u00c9  Sport has announced Brian Fenton will join The Sunday Game GAA punditry panel for the 2026 Championship, featuring across video, audio, online, including the RT\u00c9 GAA Podcast. <\/p>\n<p>One of Gaelic football&#8217;s greatest ever players, a cornerstone of Dublin\u2019s dominance, he will bring a wealth of experience and insight to the RT\u00c9 panel.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his renowned career, he won seven All-Irelands, six All-Stars, four National Leagues, 10 Leinster titles and was named GAA Football Player of the Year twice (2018, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the fifth men&#8217;s Football Player of the Year to join RT\u00c9\u2019s 2026 panel, alongside Peter Canavan (1995), Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 S\u00e9 (2004), Se\u00e1n Cavanagh (2008) and Lee Keegan (2016).<\/p>\n<p>RT\u00c9\u2019s coverage will also feature Hurling Player of the Year winners, Henry Shefflin (2002, 2006,2012) and Joe Canning (2017) and All-Ireland winner, Hannah Tyrrell (2025).<\/p>\n<p>Head of RT\u00c9 Sport, Declan McBennett said: &#8220;We are thrilled that a player of Brian\u2019s calibre will be bringing his experience, insight and drive to our coverage. I have no doubt he will excel in the same manner he did throughout his playing career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RT\u00c9\u2019s live Championship coverage begins this weekend, continuing its free-to-air offering across RT\u00c92, RT\u00c9 Player, RT\u00c9 Radio 1, RT\u00c9 Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta, the RT\u00c9 Radio app, RT\u00c9.ie and the RT\u00c9 GAA Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of throw-in this weekend, Damian Lawlor is joined by Marty Morrissey and a panel including Patrick Horgan, John Mullane, Liam Sheedy, \u00c9amonn Fitzmaurice, Peter Canavan and Aoife Sheehan for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/player\/movie\/rt%C3%A9-gaa-championship-preview-2026\/765737512041\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RT\u00c9 GAA Championship Preview<\/a> available to watch now on RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can follow all the action this summer via RT\u00c9&#8217;s live blogs, reports, highlights and analysis across RT\u00c9.ie, the RT\u00c9 News app, YouTube and social channels, with additional insight from columnists Lee Keegan, Enda McGinley and Shane McGrath, and midweek analysis on the RT\u00c9 GAA Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Armagh v Tyrone in the Ulster Football Championship on Sunday from 4pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow our live blog on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app and listen to Sunday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n<p>Watch The Sunday Game from 9.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on all matches on the RT\u00c9 News app and on rte.ie\/sport. Listen to Sunday Sport on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 Sport has announced Brian Fenton will join The Sunday Game GAA punditry panel for the 2026 Championship,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-390169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390169","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=390169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}