New Season: Sport

In an unbeatable year of Irish and International sport, RTÉ continues to offer the most comprehensive free-to–air sports coverage available with unrivalled analysis on any channel in this country. This season, RTÉ Sport will bring you the biggest and best national and international sports events including the Paralympics, GAA, soccer, rugby, racing, athletics and more.

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Champions League Live

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RTÉ Two HD, Wednesdays from 22nd August 2012

Kicking off this August RTÉ will broadcast 17 live UEFA Champions League fixtures this season in high definition on RTÉ Two HD with first choice matches on Wednesday nights, as well as comprehensive coverage of every round.





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Domestic Soccer

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Airtricity League Live: RTÉ Two, Fridays

MNS: RTÉ Two, Mondays, 7.00pm

As the season climaxes this autumn, RTÉ will feature more live matches with a record 24 live games from the Airtricity League and FAI Cup being broadcast on RTÉ Two in 2012 including the FAI Ford Cup final broadcast in HD on RTÉ Two HD.
MNS also continues with highlights of the latest Airtricity League action along with opinion and analysis on the country's only dedicated Irish soccer programme.

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FIFA World Cup 2014 Qualifiers

The Republic of Ireland soccer team begin their campaign to qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil this autumn. RTÉ Two will be there each step of the way this autumn with live coverage of their qualifying games away to Kazakhstan and the Faroe Islands and against Germany in the Aviva Stadium.
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GAA

RTÉ will have exclusive live coverage of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling and Football semi-finals and finals live from Croke Park on The Sunday Game Live along with the best GAA analysis and discussion on The Sunday Game. This autumn, RTÉ Television will also screen the Camogie final live, the GAA GPA All-Star Awards, highlights of the ladies football final and live coverage of the GAA 2013 Championship Draw.

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Paralympics

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This autumn Ireland has its biggest team in 16 years at the Paralympic Games, RTÉ will present eight highlights programmes from London featuring all 49 Irish athletes across 10 sports.





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Premier Soccer

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RTÉ Two, Saturday 18th August, 8.00pm

RTÉ Two will also feature highlights of the best of the action and analysis from the Premier League in Premier Soccer Saturday and Premier Soccer Sunday.






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Rabodirect PRO 12 League

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Following Leinster's narrow one point defeat in last season's final, RTÉ Sport will broadcast another season of the Rabodirect PRO12 league with up to 30 live games featuring all four Irish provinces home and away.





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Racing

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Autumn 2012

Coverage of Ireland's top races continues with the Champion Stakes and the Irish St. Leger this autumn, before wrapping up the year with the Leopardstown Christmas festival in December.



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Rugby Internationals

RTÉ continues to bring fans the best of the Irish international rugby team in action with live coverage from the Guinness Series 2012 including Ireland v South Africa and Ireland v Argentina at the Aviva Stadium as well as Ireland Wolfhounds v Fiji live from Thomond Park.
In addition RTÉ's popular rugby programme Against the Head returns with highlights, analysis and debate around the series.



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