“The inches we need are everywhere around us. They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second.”

Rugby, GAA, golf, medal chances in boxing and the first Super Sunday of the Premier League season - this weekend has it all.

Follow regular updates on the first day of Premier League action from England, the two All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals in Croke Park and Ireland’s Rugby World Cup warm up against Wales.

SO. MUCH. SPORT.

As befits the time of year, it’s another GAA heavy weekend, and with three provincial titles up for grabs we aren’t complaining.

With an epic weekend ahead, and one particular late-night fixture, sports fans need to get their beauty sleep while they can.

The Tour De France begins this weekend in Utrecht while elsewhere around in the globe and in Ireland it's crunch time, with an epic four finals to look forward to in our weekend of sporting action.

Sunday Game host Michael Lyster has spoken for the first time about his near death experience a number of weeks ago.

RTE is facing the prospect of losing some or all of its coverage of the Olympics from 2018 after Eurosport and parent company Discovery secured a €1.3bn (£920m) rights deal.

If you feel you’ve had enough sun and need to retire indoors for a spell, there is plenty of sporting action on the box to keep you interested.

Tennis, hurling, rugby and the small matter of a Champions League final - we hope you didn’t have big plans for the weekend because they will be hard to fit in around all the sport.

As always, May is sporting finals month. There’s a couple of bigguns this weekend so stock up on the pizzas and settle in.

2FM sports show Game On paid their respects to Bill O’Herlihy last night.

We’ll leave it there so.

“He was a fantastic broadcaster and a very, very nice man. He was great fun.”

Tributes are pouring in for Bill O’Herlihy, the retired RTE broadcaster who passed away today, aged 76.

Insight Consultants have released a statement expressing their shock and sorrow at the unexpected death of broadcaster and PR consultant Bill O’Herlihy.

RTE have confirmed retired broadcaster Bill O’Herlihy has passed away aged 76.

There’s a helluva lot of sporting action on the tellybox this weekend, so we’re doing the hard work for you and highlighting the events you really shouldn't miss.

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