

It showed 64 live games during the 2010 World Cup and that was 200 hours of programming.

RTÉ Sport broadcasts a lot of association football tournaments.

Irish Home friendlies were exclusive to Sky from 2000 and from 2014 on Premier Sports?Setanta Ireland with highlights broadcast on either RTÉ or TV3.
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Sky Sports got exclusive rights to Irish matches in the early 2000s and there were fears that National team matches couldn't be seen by fans so the government stepped in and now all Irish home and away qualifying matches have to be shown on Irish free to air TV, meaning either RTÉ, TV3 or TG4, and have remained on RTÉ as well as Sky Sports. The Republic of Ireland matches were shown live on the channel for Euro 2004, the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008, for all of which, they failed to qualify. UEFA Champions League ( women's (final only, from 2019–20) and men's).Republic of Ireland qualification matches for both World Cup finals and Euro finals.RTÉ Sport currently holds the rights to a large portfolio of football tournaments including: Ryle Nugent is the current head of RTÉ Sport having been appointed in 2010. Despite competition in sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup final which is also available on the BBC and ITV, RTÉ Sport remains Ireland's premier and most popular sports broadcaster. RTÉ Sport is also in competition with other European broadcasters such as Eurosport, ESPN, Sky Sports, BBC Sport and ITV Sport. In latter years however a growth of variety in the Irish market opened competition between other broadcasters most notably with TG4 and Setanta Sports but also TV3. Domestically, RTÉ had no competition until the late 1990s due to lack of competition in the Irish market. Traditionally RTÉ Sport faced competition from British-based broadcasters such as the BBC and ITV which have always been present in Ireland however, these broadcasters were primarily concerned with the British public and market. RTÉ holds the television and radio broadcasting rights in the Republic of Ireland to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as The Sunday Game, Thank GAA It's Friday, Soccer Republic and RTÉ Racing on RTÉ Television, and Game On, Saturday Sport, and Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio. The department provides sporting coverage through a number of platforms including RTÉ Radio, RTÉ Television, RTÉ.ie, RTÉ Player Sport and RTÉ Mobile. RTÉ Sport is a department of Irish public broadcaster RTÉ.
