RTÉ Television will celebrate a landmark year for Irish sport with nine brand new programmes and documentaries on Irish sporting achievements and legends this Christmas.
They include a countdown of ‘The Greatest Irish Sportsperson Ever!’ as voted by the Irish public and a backstage look at Croke Park on the day of the All-Ireland Football final in ‘Croke Park Lives’.
There will also be personal portraits on sporting heroes such as racing legend Vincent O’Brien in ‘Vincent O’Brien – The Master’, Olive Loughnane’s World Championship success in ‘Walk, Don’t Run – The Olive Loughnane Story’ and an in-depth profile on the former GAA Director General featuring eight GAA Presidents in ‘Liam Mulvihill: All the President’s Man’.
RTÉ Television will also be looking back on the year that was beginning with the RTÉ Sports Awards 2009 on Sunday, 20 December.
Viewers can also look forward to documentaries ‘Kilkenny’s 4th in a Row, Out of Their Hands’, ‘Ireland’s World Cup Journey’, ‘Bernard’s Big Year’ and ‘Football Final 2009 – Reflections’.
In addition, quality sports action and analysis on offer over the Christmas period includes coverage of all four days of racing from the festival at Leopardstown, highlights of top-flight action in Premier Soccer Saturday as well as Leinster and Munster highlights in the Heineken Cup.
