Setanta did indeed show the matches over the weekend, The Laois v Wicklow game was on channel 430 on saturday eveinng and I believe the Donegal v Derry game was shown yesterday.

padraig0g (UK) - Posts: 50 - 02/06/2008 12:00:35    26807

Setanta showed the hurling first then the football was on after it,the only thing is it was on celtic tv just by luck i switched channels and it was on.

scot (Tyrone) - Posts: 35 - 02/06/2008 15:08:16    26910

Is it an Irish box and Irish card? It has to be both, not just an irish card.

pronane (None) - Posts: 324 - 02/06/2008 15:23:52    26917

Full suite of games on Setanta last weekend - Laois v Wicklow on Saturday evening, Clare v Waterford & Donegal v Derry on Sunday.

Next weekend the schedule is as follows;

7th June Offaly v Westmeath 6.30pm Setanta Sports 2
8th June Cork v Tipp followed by Dublin v Louth

londoner (UK) - Posts: 110 - 03/06/2008 21:56:51    27687

To answer your question gaa_info From: http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/gaa-see-red-as-rte-put-euro-2008-games-ahead-of-leinster-championship-1391986.html GAA see red as RTE put Euro 2008 games ahead of Leinster championship A MAJOR row over live television coverage blew up between RTE and the GAA yesterday after it emerged that the national broadcaster was set to snub two Leinster championship matches in favour of live coverage of Euro 2008 games. Frantic negotiations are ongoing in an attempt to salvage at least one of the matches which RTE had previously agreed to cover, particularly because one is in the hurling championship, of which RTE, embarrassingly, is now a competition sponsor. Angry words were exchanged after RTE informed the GAA that it would not be covering the upcoming Leinster SHC semi-final between Dublin/Wexford on Saturday, June 14, and the province's SFC quarter-final between Offaly and Westmeath a week earlier. Only last Monday, Leinster Council announced that it was bringing forward the throw-in times for both games from 7pm to 6.30pm to facilitate live television, and both games were listed on the GAA's agreed original 'live' schedule with RTE. RTE's apparently sudden decision to jettison these matches in favour of showing two 5pm soccer matches (Switzerland v Czech Republic and Sweden v Spain) prompted immediate outrage in GAA circles and early speculation that it was because of the poor quality of some of the early championship matches. However, the Irish Independent understands that RTE officials are blaming the change on a scheduling cock-up by the GAA. Montrose officials are arguing they understood that the two Leinster games were to have early afternoon throw-ins, which meant they would not clash with their Euro 2008 coverage. Leinster Council and several county boards are up in arms over the U-turn, particularly as host counties were set to pick up cash bonuses this summer for live television. The row could not have come at a worse time for RTE whose monopoly has been broken by rival station TV3 this summer. TV3 is starting its live television coverage with the meeting of Clare and Waterford hurlers this weekend and kicked off a new 'magazine' preview show with some big-name analysts last night. Neither RTE nor Croke Park would comment yesterday and Leinster GAA Chairman Seamus Howlin would only say that "we are in ongoing talks with RTE and would hope to come to some agreement in the next 48 hours." The Irish Independent understands that the likely compromise will be to cover the Dublin/Wexford hurling game, but that the Offaly/Westmeath game will be kicked to touch. That will have immediate repercussions, with the Offaly County Board likely to seek cash compensation. This summer's new arrangements guarantees host counties ?30,000 per live match because county boards have to remove all local signage and allow it be replaced by advertising for the GAA's new title sponsors. Anyone know whether or not this will effect Setanta's live coverage or these games?

langer boy (UK) - Posts: 37 - 04/06/2008 09:10:24    27789

I logged onto the local radio station at home to listen to Mayo Sligo game on Sunday. While i was at it, I decided to chance the RTE player (even though it said IoI only) but managed to watch the game. I wonder of this is true of all games or if it was just an isolated incident...

essexile (Mayo) - Posts: 429 - 24/06/2008 11:08:26    37054

essexile, i used to find a way of doing it all last year for all games, but they copped onto it, it was just a simple case of copying the url separately to realplayer, and removing all the security stuff and it would work. unfortunately i haven't been that lucky this year....

pronane (None) - Posts: 324 - 24/06/2008 11:49:09    37098

sure if you all hadn't jumped ship to filled HRH coffers you would all be able to watch the games no bother....
have ye's all been looking for TG4 as well or is it only bits of your heritage that you choose to be patriotic about..
Slan

old man (None) - Posts: 140 - 24/06/2008 13:41:37    37223

pronane, Didnt have to do any of that - just clicked on Media Player and it opened - couldnt believe it!! Could be just one-off. I wouldnt want to be depending on it...

essexile (Mayo) - Posts: 429 - 24/06/2008 14:53:06    37314

rainman (Westmeath) - Posts: 8 - 24/06/2008 16:30:54    37429

no im using the same ISP and it wont let me......

ye need a proxy to go through but i have had no look in getting one ever working....

pronane (None) - Posts: 324 - 24/06/2008 17:13:26    37495

rainman (Westmeath) - Posts: 8 - 25/06/2008 01:21:02    37630

'Old Man' do us all a favour and go back under the rock from which you came from.

ballinvoash (Galway) - Posts: 5 - 28/06/2008 00:41:19    39421

Spent hours searching for a proxy that worked early on in the year to no avail but then Setanta started showing the live matches about two or three weeks into the Championship, as it happened already subscribed to that anyway, its not such a bad deal with one of the racing channels included that one time cost over twice as much as the overall subscription for the variety of channels you now can access.

ruisliper (Tyrone) - Posts: 4 - 28/06/2008 16:38:58    39513