RTÉ delayed game after learning lessons

RTÉ says that the decision to delay Sunday’s Munster SHC game was a direct result of a similar situation last year, when an overlap between games meant the early stages of another Munster hurling championship game wasn’t broadcast.

The Cork-Tipperary hurling clash on Sunday was delayed by 15 minutes to accommodate extra time in the Down-Donegal Ulster SFC game in Ballybofey. Last year extra time between Wicklow and Westmeath in Leinster led to viewers missing the first 10 minutes of Waterford v Limerick in the Munster SHC.

“We sat down with the Munster Council earlier in the year and said we didn’t want that situation arising again,” said Paul Byrnes of RTÉ Sport yesterday. “Pat Fitzgerald, secretary of the Munster Council, was very helpful and we agreed that if the scenario arose on May 30 we’d deal with in this way.