eir sport announces details of live matches from the Lidl Ladies National Football League

Three unprecedented evenings featuring action from the Lidl Ladies National Football League and the Men’s Allianz Football League LIVE on eir sport

Highlights

• Three live Ladies Football games featuring all four of last year’s All-Ireland Ladies senior football semi-finalists – Dublin, Mayo, Cork and Kerry
• TG4 All-Ireland Ladies senior football champions Dublin to feature three times in total

(Thursday, 1st February 2018) eir sport today announced details of its live coverage of the forthcoming Lidl Ladies National Football League, which will see three mouth-watering games broadcast across three different weekends, with all three games featuring current All-Ireland ladies senior football champions Dublin. 

Cork, Kerry and Mayo will also feature in the ground-breaking eir sport agreement with the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA).  

In a broadcasting first in Ireland, eir sport’s coverage of the Lidl Ladies Football League Division 1 encounters between Mayo and Dublin on February 24th and Dublin versus Kerry on March 3^rd will be followed by the equivalent clash from the Allianz Leagues with the Dublin men’s team making the trip to Castlebar (February 24th) before entertaining Kerry at Croke Park on the following weekend (March 3rd).

Dublin’s Amy Connolly and Mayo’s Niamh Kelly were joined by Melissa Duggan of Cork and Aislinn Desmond of Kerry to make today’s announcement. The action gets underway on Saturday, 10^th February, as Dublin face off against Cork in a repeat of the All-Ireland Ladies Football Finals of 2014, 2015 and 2016.  

LGFA CEO Helen O’Rourke commented: “We are delighted that eir sport are screening these high-profile fixtures. Behind the scenes, we have worked incredibly hard to ensure ‘double-headers’ alongside our male counterparts, which will enable our players to showcase their talents at top-quality venues such as Croke Park and Elvery’s MacHale Park. We look forward to eir sport’s coverage and for viewers, it’s a fantastic opportunity to tune in and watch the cream of our inter-county talent in action.” 

Speaking at the announcement, Glen Killane, Managing Director of eir TV and sport commented: “We are absolutely thrilled to add these outstanding fixtures from the Lidl Ladies National League to the overall GAA content offering available on eir sport. We have seen the incredible heights Ladies Football has soared to over the past number of years, and the appetite there is amongst GAA lovers to follow the action which means there is a responsibility on us to deliver that content.

“The addition of these games aligns with our mission at eir sport to offer Irish sports fans the very best GAA content. Ladies Football action along with our extensive Allianz Leagues coverage, our recent successful Club Championship coverage, GAA online clip rights and archive rights means eir sport is establishing itself as the key destination for GAA in Ireland.”

ENDS

Full List of Fixtures from the Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 live on eir sport

Date	Time	Game	Channel
10/02	5pm	Dublin v Cork	eir sport 1
24/02	5pm	Mayo v Dublin	eir sport 1
03/03	5pm	Dublin v Kerry	eir sport 1

Notes to Editors

About the eir Sport Pack:

The 7 channel eir sport pack includes eir sport 1, eir sport 2, BT sport 1, BT sport 2, BT Sport 3, BoxNation and BT Sport ESPN.  The eir sport Pack is available on eir Vision, on the eir sport App, on Vodafone TV and on Sky in the Republic of Ireland. eir broadband residential customers can receive the eir sport pack for free.

For more information on eir Sport visit www.eirsport.ie

Those based in the Six Counties will be able to access the eir sport games on the Premier Sports platform.  For more information, visit www.premiersports.tv