TG4 with three LIVE club finals this weekend

Niall McIntyre

Three live games.

It’s not ideal for the players but it suits TG4 just fine. The Dublin senior football final between Kilmacud Crokes and St Jude’s takes place on the Bank Holiday Monday evening at 5.00 and it will be shown live on Telifís na Gaeilge.

Waiting around all weekend for a game on Sunday is a pain, waiting around on a Bank Holiday weekend, until the Monday – is just blackguardism of the highest order of those players. But us spectators won’t complain.

TG4’s coverage is class.

They’ve two club games every weekend this weather and they nearly always choose the ones with the most potential to thrill.

The inconvenience is one of these games is usually deferred. Most Sunday games throw-in at similar times which prevents TG4 from having two live ones.

That’s not their fault and it’s certainly a lot better than not having the game at all, but often it can be difficult to really tune into a full game when you already know the result and how the game went.

Lads will talk about avoiding the result, but that’s extremely hard to do in this day and age, and especially if the result of the game means a lot to you.

This weekend is different.

Kilkenny SHC Final, Sunday, live on TG4 – 3.00

On Sunday, TG4 are heading to Nowlan Park for the always-entertaining Kilkenny senior hurling final between Ballyhale Shamrocks and Bennettsbridge. The Bridge are back in their first senior final in more than 40 years and having watched the Shamrocks stutter over Erin’s Own last weekend, they’ll have gained plenty of confidence.

Bennettsbridge were a junior club just four years ago. In 2014, they were down in junior but that year they won county, Leinster and All-Ireland honours. They were only getting started.

In 2015, they won county, provincial and All-Ireland honours again to go two full years unbeaten in club hurling. It took them a while for them to settle at the top table, but now they’re at the final hurdle.

Young lads Blanchfield, Morrissey, Cleere and co. are playing the hurling of their lives and they’ll fancy themselves against Ballyhale – without the services of Adrian Mullen who got a red card in the semi last weekend.

Ballyhale will be favourites, but don’t underestimate the Bridge.

Dublin SFC Final, Monday, Live on TG4 at 5.00

The Dublin county board’s inconsiderate Bank Holiday fixture means TG4 will have two live games this weekend. It will be a great weekend for the Kilmacud Crokes club, lining out in the Dublin senior hurling and football finals one day after another.

The Dublin football final is always an eagerly anticipated one. Crokes will be the favourites to win their first football final since 2010, but Jude’s have killed two giants already in their run and they’ll be lining up a third.

They knocked out the star-studded Ballymun Kickhams in the quarters and the reigning champions Vincent’s in the semis, this one will be tight again.

Thanks be to TG4, we can watch both of these clinkers live.

And to make it even better, they’re also showing a Galway Intermediate final on a live stream on Sunday.

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