Morton Games - Television Coverage
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MORTON GAMES GOES LIVE THIS FRIDAY, July 24th
The famous Morton Games athletics meeting will be packed with big names
this Friday in Santry for its first ever live broadcast, with live
coverage via YouTube and the Morton Games website, and highlights to be
broadcast on Setanta Ireland and Irish TV.
Athletes
A number of internationally-known big names will be announced 72 hours
before the event, but Ireland’s newest world champion Thomas Barr is on
the list of home athletes competing, including Mark English, Ciara
Everard and Kelly Proper.
The newly-crowned World University Games champion Barr will feature in
the men’s 400m hurdles in his first race on Irish soil since being
crowned world champion in Korea.
Everard over 800m and Proper in the 200m are looking to improve her
impressive times this season in their bid to qualify for both next
months’ World Athletics Championships in Beijing and the Olympic Games
in Rio.
Proper currently lies four-hundredths of a second outside the World
Championships qualifying time over the half-lap, while Everard is 0.21
outside the 800m qualifying mark, following her sixth-place finish at
the World University Games.
Mark English is also looking to get over his recent off-spell after
finishing third at the Cork City Sports, and being well off the pace in
the 800m final at last week’s European Under-23 Athletics Championships
in Tallinn.
Coverage
Coverage will be presented by Tulsen Tollett, with commentary from the
usual independent TV team of Will Downing, Dick Hooper and Jessie Barr
being joined by new signing David Gillick, with the twice European 400m
indoor champion making his commentary debut.
Produced by Irish Sports Network and OB company 247.tv, the live stream
will run from 7pm-9:15pm on the Friday night, with highlights broadcast
at the following times –
Setanta Ireland
Tues July 28 – 7:30pm
Wed July 29 – 6:00am
Wed July 29 – 1:00pm
Irish TV
Thu July 30 – 8:00pm
Sun Aug 2 – 12 noon
Irish TV is available in the UK
and Ireland on Sky 191 and Freesat 400, plus 191 on eVision and online
at irishtv.ie, while Setanta Ireland is available as a basic channel on
UPC and eVision, and is a subscription channel on Sky 423.
Coverage of the Morton Games comes off the back of broadcasting of the
Cork City Sports and cycling’s Junior Tour of Ireland from Clare.