On my first year starting on the Clare team in 1990, our manager Tony Kelly dispatched Cyril Lyons, Alan Neville and myself to the Clare Inn to do a TV interview with Michael Lyster.

At the end of the match yesterday, I shook hands with Michael Lyster. It may be my last time doing a live TV game with Michael, who retires from RTÉ at the end of this year, and I wanted to acknowledge his help to me, and his absolute professionalism, over the years.

Lyster yesterday confirmed he will be stepping down from the anchor position upon reaching the age of 65 early next year.

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Joanne Cantwell and Dara Ó Cinnéide are believed to be on the shortlist to replace Michael Lyster as presenter of RTÉ’s Sunday Game Live.

"Part of the reason that my retirement snuck out at the weekend was because this announcement is going to be made by RTÉ in the near future anyway."

GAA pundits Pat Spillane and Joe Brolly did some admiring of Dublin's Diarmuid Connolly, and it wasn't about his football skills.

Eurospar has launched a new initiative which will see defibrillators outside all their supermarkets nationwide.

So why is Jim Gavin being all unreasonable? You might recall recently that charges of criminal blasphemy were dropped against actor and comedian Stephen Fry.

Mahers' power and hard running should be vital for the Premier, says Peter McNamara.

Finally, Ray’s Lip-Sync battle will be making a return with Fair City’s Jenny Dixon and RTÉ sports broadcaster legend Michael Lyster.

Cian O’Sullivan. He’s playing but is he fit? Will he last the match? Will he even last the first half? Eeek.

THOUGH Michael Lyster suffered a serious heart attack in June, he is not about to start fretting about his health.

Mayo’s dramatic late comeback against Dublin last Sunday will count for nothing if they fail to win Saturday’s replay.

Its motto is “choose to live a little” and after one of its staff had a scare last year, Lidl is making sure its staff can live longer by checking out their hearts and setting them a fitness challenge.

The Sunday Game host Michael Lyster hopes to be back on television screens next month.

Tunisia has made its first arrests over the massacre of 38 people, including three Irish tourists, Sunday Game host Michael Lyster has spoken for the first time about his near death experience, and Jean-Claude Juncker, has said he feels "betrayed" by the "egotism" showed by Greece in the failed debt talks Here’s this evening’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

Michael Lyster is still in a serious condition after being rushed to the Mater Hospital in Dublin on Friday.

The Sunday Game presenter Michael Lyster is reported to be in hospital after coming down with a sudden illness last night.

The arguments are as familiar to us now as Croke Park, Michael Lyster and an umpire’s white coat, but the ongoing domination of Dublin’s footballers at all levels in Leinster is such that those fires will continue to be stoked as the fine weather sets in. 

THE punditry boom in the GAA keeps getting boomier.

RTÉ won’t be taking any further action after Joe Brolly apologised for his derogatory comment about commentator Marty Morrissey on The Sunday Game Live yesterday.

In one of his last interviews as RTÉ's soccer anchor, Bill O' Herlihy spoke to Kieran Shannon about Charlton, Dunphy, Giles and retirement.

Wexford boss Liam Dunne has taken aim at pundits Michael Duignan and Ger Loughnane for remarks they made about his team two years ago.

Success in a county like Longford

Colm O’Neill has shown incredible mental strength to come back from a devastating third cruciate injury to lead the line for Cork in their battle with Monaghan in the League on Sunday.

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For what Joe Brolly considered a phoney war, yesterday’s first game produced its share of mean hits and collateral damage. Nearly all of it in the studio.

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The storied bowl has one more to tell. Chapter closed, with no pages left unturned for the proprietors.

Westmeath man James Boyle delivered a cracker of a best man's speech at the wedding of his brother Lar recently - with some help from Michael Lyster, Pat Spillane and Colm O'Rourke.

My first visit to Semple Stadium was a depressing one that has probably shaped me into the cynic that I am.

At half-time, nobody had expected this contest to be so one-sided.

Kevin McStay has publicly declared his interest in becoming Kildare’s new senior football team manager.

Perhaps, in hindsight, fortune took too many hostages.