Sports Stadium was an Irish television sport programme on Raidió Teilifís Éireann

Raidió Teilifís Éireann

Raidió Teilifís Éireann is a semi-state company and the public service broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts them on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on January 1, 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on December 31, 1961, making...

 (RTÉ). Broadcast between 1973 and 1997, it was RTÉ's flagship sports programme and one of its longest-running shows.

Its first presenter was Brendan O'Reilly

Brendan O'Reilly

Brendan O'Reilly was an Irish broadcaster, journalist, actor, athlete, singer and songwriter. He is best known as presenter of the long-running Sports Stadium....

 who lasted for fourteen years. Other presenters during the show's run included Liam Nolan

Liam Nolan

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, Fred Cogley, Michael Lyster

Michael Lyster

Michael Lyster is a sports broadcaster with Raidió Teilifís Éireann . He has presented The Sunday Game on television since 1984 and is a Jacob's Award winner.-Career:...

, Peter Collins

Peter Collins (broadcaster)

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 ad finally Tracy Piggott.

The last edition of Sports Stadium was broadcast on 20 December 1997.