Posts Tagged ‘Setanta’

RTÉ and Setanta, who showed next to no interest in Bohs’ away game in Salzburg, have relented and now plan to broadcast the return leg from Dalymount Park next week, according to Neil O’Riordan.

It looks like Setanta’s League of Ireland section, which was probably the best presented and among the busiest of  all of the league online resources, is no more, and so the feed and link are removed from FP.

Setanta UK, an audacious Irish venture piggy-backing mostly on British football,  is gone, but it seems that it is intended to keep Setanta Ireland on the go.
A statement on the Setanta Sports (as opposed to Setanta Ireland)  site puts a brave face on things and sets out the agenda on the home turf, but omits [...]

The obsession of Irish sports fans with British football got a good airing on Setanta Sports last evening. An hour-long Sports Matters (additionally and mysteriously called The Wrong Trousers)  included a piece on Drogheda fan loyalty and a discussion with former Bohs director Michael Nugent and Evening Herald reporter Aidan Fitzmaurice, also a Bohemian. Perhaps [...]

The  €2.04bn auction for broadcast rights to the English Premiership circus, in which Setanta has lost out to Sky, gives expression to the scale of the challenge that live football faces in Britain and Ireland.
(At the time of writing, it’s not known how much our public service broadcaster will have to pony up to the [...]

More financial mayhem, but this time very close to the edge, as Drogheda fail to pay staff and players, again, according to Setanta.

In the credit-where-it’s-due department, the Indo gives a decent airing to Sean Prunty’s complaint about his allegedly poor treatment by Drogheda.