Sports Stadium recalled: 'It was the Carlsberg job, being paid to bring sport to the Irish people'

Brendan O'Reilly presented the first ‘Sports Stadium', on September 22, 1973. Picture: RTÉ Stills Library

Larry Ryan talks to Michael Lyster, Stephen Alkin, George Hamilton, Maurice Reidy and Michael O’Carroll to recall the heyday of RTÉ’s flagship Saturday show ‘Sports Stadium’.

NOW we have no sport, maybe it’s easier to look back at Sports Stadium and consider those to be glory days.