{"id":629666,"date":"2026-09-19T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629666\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:02:11","slug":"rte-will-broadcast-irelands-nations-league-games-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629666\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 will broadcast Ireland’s Nations League games with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT\u00c9 HAS CONFIRMED it will broadcast the Nations League matches between Ireland and Israel; however, there will be no studio presentation or studio punditry.\n<\/p>\n

Ireland will play Israel in Debrecen, Hungary, in the first of their Nations League group games on 27 September, before meeting again in Ba\u010dka Topola, Serbia on 4 October behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

Siptu previously called for RT\u00c9 to boycott the games<\/a>, raising the prospect of production staff withdrawing their services from the broadcast.<\/p>\n

The 42\u00a0reported last week that the broadcaster was considering drastically limiting coverage of the games<\/a> with Israel.<\/p>\n

In a statement this afternoon, RT\u00c9 said: \u201cRT\u00c9 will meet its contractual obligations to broadcast the two UEFA Nations League fixtures between Ireland and Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

It said there will be no studio presentation for the matches, and commentary will be taken from the international feed and will not be provided by an RT\u00c9 commentator.<\/p>\n

The broadcaster said it has not taken advertising or sponsorship around either game.<\/p>\n

RT\u00c9 said a minimal technical team will be deployed and\u00a0news coverage of the games and the wider events surrounding them will be provided.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThese arrangements reflect RT\u00c9\u2019s decision to fulfil its contractual broadcasting obligations while limiting the additional production and commercial activity associated with the fixtures,\u201d it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 HAS CONFIRMED it will broadcast the Nations League matches between Ireland and Israel; however, there will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[319,1128,61,60,3410,43,6085,30918,144894],"class_list":["post-629666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcasting","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-rte","tag-uefa","tag-uefa-nations-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629666","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=629666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}