The chief executive of TV3 yesterday insisted the station’s success in winning the primary rights for broadcasting next year’s Rugby World Cup had nothing to do with the Ballymount operation losing out to Sky in the latest GAA TV deal.

TV3 has secured full broadcasting rights for all 48 matches of the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

GAA commercial and stadium director Peter McKenna admits TV3’s lack of high definition quality TV and penetration into Northern Ireland counted against them in rights bidding.

Gaelic Players Association founder Donal O’Neill predicts the GAA’s entire commercial revenues will grow significantly as a result of bringing Sky Sports into their stable of media partners.

The GAA has confirmed that Sky Sports has bought exclusive rights to 14 championship games this summer.

TV3 HAVE inked an agreement with former Setanta chief executive Niall Cogley’s new event production enterprise to pilot their host broadcast coverage of next year’s Europa League final at Dublin’s new Aviva Stadium.

DUBLIN football manager Pat Gilroy has described the decision to screen three of his side’s four NFL games live on Setanta’s subscription channel as “harsh” on the county’s supporters.

SETANTA will once again bid for the right to screen live football and hurling championship fixtures when the current deals between the GAA, RTÉ and TV3 expire later this year.

The draw for this year's Setanta Sports Cup will take place on Tuesday, July 28 with the first series of fixtures scheduled for the week-end of August 29 /30.

IRISH soccer supporters can look forward to a feast of football in the upcoming season after Setanta Ireland yesterday revealed they have won the rights to broadcast 33 Premier League games in the Republic of Ireland.

SETANTA chief executive Niall Cogley is confident that there will be a sufficient appetite among armchair fans to justify the GAA’s decision to hand simultaneous live Sunday broadcasting rights to two competing stations.

FRED COUPLES has teed up his golf ball 23 times in the Masters and has played the weekend at Augusta National each and every year.

SATELLITE television giant Setanta Sports has won exclusive Irish broadcast rights for the US Masters — with RTÉ last night confirming they did not bid for the highlights package.

Mobile media network 3 today announced that it has teamed up with sports TV channel Setanta Sports to provide mobile TV to its customers.

SETANTA Sports has unveiled plans to cover all 48 games live at the Rugby World Cup in France this autumn.

THE Irish Hockey Association announced details of a new international tournament for Dublin.

RTÉ’s traditional grip on key global sports events took another hit yesterday as Setanta Sports inked a contract extension with the International Rugby Board for live coverage of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

Irish sports broadcaster Setanta Sports Ireland today secured a contract to show live coverage of all matches from the 2007 and 2011 Rugby World Cups.

The draw has been made for the Setanta Cup.

The eight competing teams in the 2007 Setanta Sports Cup will learn their fate in tonight’s draw which takes place in the Coach House, Dublin Castle at 5pm.

Satellite channel, Setanta Sports, will broadcast at least 76 matches from the English Premier league each season from next year, it revealed tonight.

THE half billion euro Premiership rights deal completed by Setanta Sports last week does not mean a football windfall for Irish viewers.

RTÉ will be forced to negotiate with Setanta Sports, the company who outbid them for World Cup Rugby rights, for permission to broadcast Ireland’s matches in the 2007 tournament.

IRISH sports channel Setanta has added German, French and Dutch football to its schedule which is now running seven days a week.

TV station Setanta Sports is to make a bid for the rights to broadcast GAA matches.

THE launch of a dedicated sports channel by Setanta will not spark a bidding war for GAA rights in the Irish television market.

Ireland’s first dedicated television sports channel will begin broadcasting later this summer, cable company NTL revealed yesterday.

Ireland’s first dedicated television sports channel will begin broadcasting later this summer, cable company ntl revealed today.

Niall Cogley has resigned as Head of Sport at RTE to take up a position with sports broadcaster Setanta.

ALEX Ferguson is confident £12.8million signing Louis Saha can forge as effective a striking partnership with Ruud van Nistelrooy as the Champions League-winning combination of Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole.

RTÉ have secured rights to broadcast 15 FA Barclaycard Premiership games live during the 2004/2005 season.

RTÉ today announced details of television coverage for the forthcoming Rugby World Cup, which takes place this October in Australia.

AFTER a couple of days of uncertainty and hours of laborious negotiation, RTÉ announced yesterday evening that it has secured the rights to broadcast live, Ireland’s vital Euro 2004 qualifier with Georgia in Tblisi on Saturday.

CORK is among the front-runners to host the European Cross-Country Championships in 2005 — the year the City will hold the status of European Capital of Culture.

TOP golfer Pádraig Harrington sunk his sporting rivals last night when he picked up the prestigious RTÉ-Hibernian sports personality of the year award.

RTÉ has secured the rights to screen Celtic’s Scottish Premier League (SPL) matches.

RTÉ today announced the completion of a deal with the Scottish Premier League, which gives the national broadcaster the rights to show a package of Celtic matches in the SPL until the end of the season.

RTÉ and BBC have joined forces against Sky Television for the rights to televise the Republic of Ireland's away internationals.