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This Sunday.

Michael Lyster will present RTÉ’s The Sunday Game Live for the final time when Dublin and Tyrone play in the All Ireland Senior Football Championship final, after which Joanne Cantwell will take over as anchor.

Mr Lyster first presented the show in 1984.

Watch his first time presenting the show here

Pics: RTE Archives

Joanne Cantwell

This can’t end well.

Sharon Brady writes:

RTÉ today announced that Joanne Cantwell will anchor The Sunday Game Live following Michael Lyster’s retirement at the end of the 2018 GAA Championship.
It was confirmed earlier this week, that Michael Lyster was leaving the flagship GAA programme after 34 years at the helm.

Former Dublin footballer Joanne Cantwell joined RTÉ in 2007 as a reporter on The Sunday Game Live. Over the past 11 years she has worked across numerous RTÉ Sport programmes on television and radio as a presenter, reporter and journalist including presenting The Saturday Game Live, rugby magazine programme Against The Head and the RTÉ Sports Awards on RTÉ television and Saturday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1….

But who’ll cover the hurling?

FIGHT!

Last Week: Drops Mic

Pic: John Cooney/RTÉ Guide

Michael Lyster joined RTÉ in 1979 and has presented The Sunday Game since 1984.

Via RTÉ

RTÉ today confirmed, that Michael Lyster will continue to present RTÉ’s Allianz League Sunday and to anchor The Sunday Game Live until the end of the 2018 GAA Championship season when he is due to retire.

Michael said,:

“I’ll be hanging up my hat at the end of 2018. I’ve a full season of top class GAA action to get through with the National Leagues and of course the Championships this summer and that’s what I’m focused on. T

Following my health scare a few years ago, every day and every year was a bonus. That’s the mindset I’ve continued to have and I feel incredibly lucky to have another season to look forward to at the helm”.

Micheal Lyster will speak to Ray D’Arcy on RTÉ Radio 1’s The Ray D’Arcy Show this afternoon.

Pic; RTÉ