TG4 aims for Champions Cup highlights package

TG4 bosses remain hopeful the station can secure highlights rights to the inaugural European Rugby Champions Cup.

The tournament starts next week and is to be screened exclusively live in Ireland and the UK on subscription channels Sky Sports and BT Sport.

The Irish language station aired a similar snippet programme throughout the last three years of the now defunct Heineken Cup and, with no plans to screen highlights on RTÉ or BBC, the hopes of hard-pressed Irish fans rest with the Galway-based outfit.