2018 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

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RTÉ has revealed its schedule of live televised championship games.

The state broadcaster will show 31 live games across Gaelic football, hurling and camogie this summer, starting with a double-header on Sunday week featuring Kilkenny v Dublin in the Leinster SHC and Mayo and Galway in the Connacht SFC. There will be seven Munster SHC games shown and three Leinster SHC ties.

RTÉ will launch their championship coverage in Donnybrook on Sunday, while Sky Sports - who will show 20 games, 14 of which are exclusive - will reveal their schedule on Tuesday.

The full schedule of live television matches on RTÉ and the RTÉ Player is as follows:

Sunday, May 13

LEINSTER SHC: DUBLIN V KILKENNY

CONNACHT SFC: MAYO V GALWAY

Sunday, May 20

MUNSTER SHC: LIMERICK V TIPPERARY

MUNSTER SHC: CORK V CLARE

Sunday, May 27

MUNSTER SHC: TIPPERARY V CORK

LEINSTER SHC: GALWAY V KILKENNY

Sunday, June 3

ULSTER SFC: FERMANAGH/ARMAGH V TYRONE/MONAGHAN

MUNSTER SHC: WATERFORD V TIPPERARY

Sunday, June 10

MUNSTER SHC: LIMERICK V WATERFORD or TIPPERARY V CLARE

LEINSTER SFC: OFFALY/WICKLOW/DUBLIN V LONGFORD/MEATH

Sunday, June 17

MUNSTER SHC: CLARE V LIMERICK or WATERFORD V CORK

CONNACHT FOOTBALL FINAL

Saturday, June 23

MUNSTER FOOTBALL FINAL

Sunday, June 24

ULSTER FOOTBALL FINAL

LEINSTER FOOTBALL FINAL

Sunday, July 1

MUNSTER HURLING FINAL

LEINSTER HURLING FINAL

Sunday, July 8

FOOTBALL QUALIFIER RD 4

Saturday, July 14

SUPER 8s: ROUND 1

Sunday, July 15

ALL-IRELAND HURLING QUARTER-FINAL

ALL-IRELAND HURLING QUARTER-FINAL

or

SUPER 8s: ROUND 1

SUPER 8s: ROUND 1

Sunday, July 22

SUPER 8s: ROUND 2

SUPER 8s: ROUND 2

SATURDAY 28 JULY

ALL-IRELAND HURLING SEMI-FINAL

Sunday, July 29

ALL-IRELAND HURLING SEMI-FINAL

Saturday, August 4

ALL-IRELAND CAMOGIE QUARTER-FINALS

Sunday, August 5

SUPER 8s: ROUND 3

Saturday, August 11

ALL-IRELAND FOOTBALL SEMI-FINAL

Sunday, August 12

ALL-IRELAND FOOTBALL SEMI-FINAL

Saturday, August 18

ALL-IRELAND CAMOGIE SEMI-FINALS

Sunday, August 19

ALL-IRELAND HURLING FINAL

Sunday, September 2

ALL-IRELAND FOOTBALL FINAL

Sunday, September 9

ALL-IRELAND CAMOGIE FINALS

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Sky are announcing their live games on Tuesday.

@Bandage you might want to let Michael Duignan know

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I presume they will have the Tyrone Monaghan game?

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Certainly hope so

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I’d say there is very little chance. RTE have 2 live games that day so Sky won’t have any interest competing with them.

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What date is it on ?

Can BBC show it ?

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What’s competing with it? I would have thought Tyrone v Monaghan would be box office.

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It’s on 20th May. Rte showing a pair of round robin hurling games :man_facepalming:

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I read elsewhere that BBC have two live games (the Ulster final and the Fermanagh/Armagh v Tyrone/Monaghan semi-final).

Two more games will be shown live on BBC iPlayer with the other four shown deferred and in full on BBC 2.

I imagine the Tyrone-Monaghan game will probably be one of the iPlayer games.

It’s pretty farcical that 2017 was the first of a three-year TV rights deal and that in the second year of the deal the championship formats change massively yet the number of live matches doesn’t change with it.

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This is outrageous and without question anti Ulster bias.

Even the most ardent hurling supporter would agree that a do or die Ulster football game between Tyrone and Monaghan is a bigger draw than either of the 2 hurling league games being shown

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That fucking shitfest of hurling over the game of the summer Championship.

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I could begin to get my head around it if the hurling games were knock out. But this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever

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Both hurling games feature potential All-Ireland winners. There isn’t a game in the entire Ulster championship you could say the same about. Ulster was largely drab last year and then the champions got embarrassed in Croke Park. It’s similar to how Connacht football was viewed in the early 90s and is being treated similarly.

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Sure every hurling game features potential all Ireland finalists considering only about 7 counties take it seriously

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Oooft.

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I would say most hurling people would laugh their hole off at ya.

Not that I necessarily agree. But they would.

Hurling snobbery is a very ignorant trait

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Who takes football seriously?

Not much more.

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Hurling snobbery toward football or hurling snobbery toward weaker counties ???

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Ouch