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The League of Ireland Football Show is back for another season.
A must for every League of Ireland fan, this 30 minute programme goes out on DAB RTÉ Radio 1 Extra every Monday evening between 6.30pm and 7pm.
The programme will look back on all the week’s news and weekend's action in the League of Ireland with our presenter Damien O'Meara and a panel of experts.
The programme will also be available as a podcast following its broadcast.
Contact us: leagueofireland@rte.ie
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SEASON 2011
7 November 2011
The final edition of the show extends to an hour to reflect on the FAI Cup Final, the promotion/relegation play off and a look back on the year that's been. Eamon Donohoe, Gareth Maher of the Irish Daily Mail and Mark McCadden of The Irish Daily Star are in studio.
24 October 2011
Damien O'Meara is joined by Eamon Donohoe and Stephen Alkin for a review of all the week's Airtricity League and FAI Ford Cup action.
17 October 2011
Gareth Maher and Mark McCadden join Eamon Donohoe to look back at the week's action in the FAI Ford Cup and the Airtricity League.
10 October 2011
Damien O'Meara is joined by Damien Richardson and James O'Toole to review all the week's domestic action.
3 October 2011
Damien O'Meara is joined Gareth Maher of the Irish Daily Mail and RTÉ's Eamon Donohoe by for a look back on all the latest action in the Airtricity League as the season approaches a climax.
26 September 2011
No Programme
19 September 2011
No Programme
12 September 2011
No Programme
5 September 2011
Eamon Donohoe and Mark McCadden join Damien O'Meara to look back at the league and cup action and to look ahead to the next phase of Shamrock Rovers European adventure.
29 August 2011
Mark McCadden and Eamon Donohoe join Damien to reflect on events in a historic week for the League of Ireland.
22 August 2011
The show returns after an extended summer break. Gareth Maher, Eamon Donohoe and James O'Toole join Damien in studio while Stephen Kenny reflects on his Derry City side's 1-0 win over Bohemians.
25 July 2011
Damien O'Meara is joined by Paul O'Hehir and Eamon Donohoe to take a look back at the week's action in the Airtricity League.
18 July 2011
Damien O'Meara is joined by Stephen Alkin and Adrian Eames to take a look back at the week's action in the Airtricity League, including Sligo's 8-0 massacre of Galway.
11 July 2011
Damien O'Meara is joined by Mark McCadden and John Fallon for a look back at all the weekend's action, and a look ahead to the clubs in European action this week.
4 July 2011
Andy Meyler and Pete Mahon give their views on Shamrock Rover's 1-0 win over St Patrick's Athletic while Gareth Maher of The Irish Daily Mail and Eamon Donohoe join Damien in studio to react to the weekend's action.
27 June 2011
Eric White, Colm Foley and Damien Richardson join Eamon Donahoe to look back over the weekend's action in the Airtricity League.
20 June 2011
No Programme
13 June 2011
Mark McCadden of the Irish Daily Star and James O'Toole from MNS join Damien to reflect on the weekend's domestic soccer action.
6 June 2011
Damien O'Meara is joined by Damien Richardson and Eamon Donohoe for a look back at the weekend's FAI Cup action.
30 May 2011
As Drogheda United secure their first league win of the season Mick Cooke gives his reaction. Gareth Maher of the Irish Daily Mail and James O'Toole from the MNS backroom staff join Damien in studio to reflect on the weekend.
23 May 2011
This week you can hear Stephen Kenny's views on Derry's draw with Bray while Damien Richardson and Eamon Donohoe reflect on the rest of the weekend's action.
16 May 2011
Stephen Alkin and Mark McCadden join Damien O'Meara for this week's League Of Ireland Football Show. There's reaction to the weekend's action including Michael O'Neill, Gary O'Neill, Ronan Finn and Ian Foster's views on the Setanta Cup Final.
9 May 2011
Gareth Maher and Miguel Delaney join Damien in studio to chat hat-tricks, seven goal hammerings, refereeing standards and who statistically is the worst team in the history of domestic soccer. There’s also reaction from Michael O’Neill and Paul Cook to their weekend outings and Eamonn Donohoe’s unmissable guide to the First Division.
2 May 2011
Paul O'Hehir of the Daily Mirror and Simon O'Gorman of Extra-time.ie joins our presenter Eamon Donahoe this week to look back on the weekend's action in the Airticity league, and Alan Cawley tells Eamon why he has decided to retire from Football.
25 April 2011
Paul Lennon of The Daily Star joins Damien O'Meara this week, plus reaction from Pat Fenlon, Paul Cook, Pat Devlin and Sean Connor to the weekend's action in the Airtricity league.
18 April 2011
RTE's John Kenny and Gareth Maher of the Irish Daily Mail join Damien in studio to reflect on the weekend's League Of Ireland action. There's also reaction to the big Dublin derby from Shamrock Rovers' boss Michael O'Neill and his Bohemian's counterpart Pat Fenlon.
11 April 2011
RTÉ's very own Con Murphy and extratime.ie's Simon O'Gorman are in studio with Damien to react to the weekend. Ian Foster and Stephen Kenny give their views on Friday's game at the Bradywell, Packie Lynch discusses the future of Sligo Rovers while Eamon Donohoe reviews the First Division.
4 April 2011
Mark McCadden of The Irish Daily Star and Eamon Donohue join Damien in studio, there's reaction from Michael O'Neill and Mick Cooke from the weekend, news of a new history project aimed at cataloging the history of the League, a report on the First Division including Roddy's return to Cork, the arrival of Keith Gillespie to Longford and why being a ref is bad for your health.
28 March 2011
Damien is joined in studio by Adrian Eames and Paul O'Hehir while there's reaction from Michael O'Neill, Stephen Kenny, Pat Fenlon and Sean Connor to the weekend's action. Dave Mulcahy is on the phone fresh from scoring the winner for Pats on his 100th game for the club.
21 March 2011
Stephen Alkin and Gareth Maher join Damien in studio while Dundalk boss Ian Foster is on the phone, there's also reaction from Tallaght as Shamrock Rovers maintain their unbeaten start to the season, Eamonn Donohue's First Division summary and chat about the rest of the week's news.
14 March 2011
Damien is joined by new Drogheda United manager Mick Cook while there's reaction from the weekend's games from Michael O'Neill, Paul Cook, Gary McCabe, John Gill and Pat Devlin. Eamonn Donohue reports on a day spent in the company of Roddy Collins as he took charge of Monaghan United for the first time. Ed Leahy and Simon O'Gorman are both in studio.
7 March 2011
Damien is joined in studio for the first show of the season by Mark McCadden of The Irish Daily Star and Gareth Maher of The Irish Daily Mail to look back on the opening weekend of games while Eamon Zayed discusses life at Derry City and the ongoing situation in Libya.
SEASON 2010
8 November 2010
On the League of Ireland football show, Damien O’Meara is joined by two Rovers supporters ahead of the FAI Cup final between Shamrock Rovers and Sligo Rovers. John Byrne from the RTÉ Guide is a dyed in the wool Hoops supporter, while Adrian Eames from RTÉ Sport has been following the Bit O’ Red since he was a youngster. Also Eric White of BBC Foyle on what it means to the people of Derry now that City are back in the Premier and a look ahead to the play off match between Bray Wanderers and Monaghan United.
1 November 2010
Damien O'Meara is joined by Tony O'Donoghue and Gareth Maher to review the final weekend of the league season and salute champions Shamrock Rovers.
25 October 2010
Paul O'Hehir and Damien Richardson join Damien to ponder whether Bohemians have managed to throw their League chances away.
18 October 2010
Damien O'Meara is joined in studio by Gareth Maher, Brian DeSalvo and Tony O'Donoghue to reflect on the weekend's action. There's also reaction from both FAI Cup semi-finals.
11 October 2010
Eamon Donohoe, John Kenny and Mark McCadden discuss a dramatic and, possibly, decisive weekend in the Airtricity League.
4 October 2010
Damien O'Meara is joined by Brian DeSalvo and John Fallon to review the weekend's action, while Pat McAuliffe reflects on the run in for a competitive First Division.
27 September 2010
Damien is joined by Stephen Alkin and Gareth Maher to discuss what stands between Shamrock Rovers and the title, and all the week's action including Sligo Rovers EA Sports Cup Final win.
20 September 2010
Adrian Eames and Denise O'Flaherty join Damien in studio to look back over the weekend's FAI Cup games, the midweek fixtures in the Premier Division, while pondering the state of officialdom in the domestic game.
13 September 2010
Damien O'Meara, Eamon O'Donohue and Tony O'Donoghue look back on the weekend's Airtricity League action and we learn of Tony's love of Bray Wanderers and Eamon's brush with the League's authorities.
6 September 2010
Damien is joined in studio by Jim McLaughlin and Brian DeSalvo to look back on the weekend's action as Shamrock Rovers move 7 points clear on top of the Premier Division.
30 August 2010
Eamon Donohoe is joined by Gareth Maher and Mark McCadden to look back over an exciting weekend of FAI Ford Cup football.
23 August 2010
Damien O'Meara is joined by Alan Cawley and Brian De Salvo to look back over the week's events on and off the field in the Airtricity League.
16 August 2010
What could be looked back on at the end of the season as a turning point in the race for the Premier Division title, Bohs and Pats beaten with Shamrock Rovers moving clear. Damien O'Meara is joined in studio by Paul O'Hehir and John Fallon while there's reaction from Michael O'Neill, Paul Cook, Pete Mahon and Keith Long.
9 August 2010
This week Damien is joined in studio by Ed Leahy and Gareth Maher to look back on the week's news. There's also reaction from Dan Murray, Pete Mahon and Neale Fenn in the week his move to Shamrock Rovers dominated the headlines.
2 August 2010
RTE's John Kenny and Denise O'Flaherty of extratime.ie join Damien in studio to reflect on the weekend's action, Shamrock Rovers in Europe, Neale Fenn's future and how excited we should be about this Wednesday's Airtricity League XI game with Manchester United.
26 July 2010
Mark McCadden of the Daily Star and Noel Mooney Head of Marketing and Promotion in airtricity League join Con in Studio to review the week's action. We hear from Bohs manager Pat Fenlon who has been speaking to Adrian Eames on their exit from Europe and what Pete Mahon really thinks of MNS!
19 July 2010
Con Murphy is joined in Studio this week by Damien Richardson and Brian De Salvo to look back over the week’s action. We also hear from Football Journalist Tony Incenzo who went to see six football matches in four days including Galway United v Shamrock Rovers last evening.
12 July 2010
Damien O'Meara is joined in studio by Paul O'Hehir of the Irish Daily Mirror and on the phone by Con Murphy to look back over the weekend. Liam Buckley also looks ahead to Sporting Fingal's European debut this Thursday.
5 July 2010
Damien O'Meara is joined by Gareth Maher and Stephen McGuinness and for an in-depth look at all the action on and off the field in the Airtricity League.
14 to 28 June 2010
The show took a mid-season break for three weeks.
7 June 2010
On this week's programme Damien is joined in studio by former Republic of Ireland manager Eoin Hand to review all the action from the Ford FAI Cup third round. There's also reaction from Pete Mahon, Ian Foster Marin Russell, Darius Kierans and David McMillian.
31 May 2010
Damien is joined by Gareth Maher and Alan Matthews. There's also reaction from Michael O'Neill, Pat Fenlon, Pete Mahon, Paul Crowley and more after the latest round of games in the League.
24 May 2010
Damien is joined in studio by John Kenny and RTÉ.ie's Ed Leahy to review the weekend's action, while Pete Mahon and Pat Fenlon are amongst the managers reacting to their results.
17 May 2010
Broadcast prior to the news that Alan Matthews has resigned as manager of Drogheda United, Damien was joined in studio by Adrian Eames and Gareth Maher to look over the weekend's action and discuss the on-off visit of Barcelona to Limerick.
10 May 2010
Jim McLoughlin and Stephen Alkin join Damien in studio, there's reaction to come from some of the weekend's Premier Divison games as St Pat's beat Dundalk to move back on top of the table. Rovers put the troubles of Oriel Park behind them as the Students hit Bray for six.
3 May 2010
Johnny McDonnell and Con Murphy join Damien in studio to look back over the weekend's action while there's post match reaction from Michael O'Neill, Thomas Stewart, Pete Mahon, Alan Matthews, Ian Foster, Eddie Gormley and Sean Connor.
26 April 2010
With St Pat's and Dundalk level on top of the table Damien is joined in studio by former Pat's and Rovers defender Darragh Maguire and RTE Sport's Stephen Alkin while we'll hear from Pete Mahon, Paul Cooke, Michael O'Neill and Eddie Gormley.
19 April 2010
Conor Kenna of St Pat's reflects on being named Airtricity League Player Of The Month for March while a pantheon of big names - Pat Fenlon, Sean Connor, Karl Sheppard, Liam Buckley and Ian Foster react to the weekend's action. Comment and analysis comes from Gareth Maher and John Fallon
12 April 2010
In the aftermath of the Dublin derby we get reaction from Shamrock Rovers boss Michael O'Neill and Bohs' supremo Pat Fenlon. Damien Richardson and Paul Lennon provide comment and analysis on the rest of the week's action in the Airtricity League.
5 April 2010
This week Tony O'Donoghue and Adrian Eames join Damien to review the weekend's Airtricity League action, Pete Mahon, Liam Buckley, Paul Cooke and Alan Matthews react to their latest results while the lad's discuss the manager most likely to inflict pain on TOD in the name of a live pitchside interview.
29 March 2010
Alan Cawley explains the science behind mending fracture cheekbones, Kevin Doherty discusses his retirement while Cian O'Connell gives a view from the West on matters football.
22 March 2010
This week on an action packed League Of Ireland Football Show Damian Lynch, Tony O'Donoghue and Gareth Maher join Damian O'Meara.
15 March 2010
Alan Cawley, Darragh Maguire, Pat McAulliffe and John Byrne join Damien O'Meara to discuss all things Airtricity League.
8 March 2010
Drogheda United manager Alan Matthews, St Pat’s captain Damian Lynch and RTÉ's Adrian Eames join Damien O'Meara to look back on the opening weekend of the domestic season.
