Ger Canning
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Ger Canning is an Irish sports commentator with Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ).
Career
Ger Canning was born in Cork on 10 May 1951. He was a secondary school teacher at South Presentation school in Cork City when he began his broadcasting career with Cork Local Radio in 1978.[1]
Two years later in 1980 he joined the national broadcaster, Radio Telefís Éireann, as a member of the station's sports department. As a fluent Irish-speaker his first All-Ireland final commentary was on RTÉ 2 in 1981, because the station then had a policy of using the two channels for commentaries in both English and Irish. After Michael O'Hehir's retirement due to ill-health in 1985, Canning became the main Gaelic games commentator on RTÉ television. Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh took over O'Hehir's duties as a radio commentator. To date Canning has broadcast nearly 75 All-Ireland finals (including three in Irish).
Canning commentated on every All-Ireland senior hurling final from 1985 to 2016.[2]
Canning has worked on many sporting events for RTÉ, including:
- Soccer, including five World Cups
- Six Olympic Games
- Basketball
- International rules football
- Greyhound racing
- Olympic hockey qualifying[3][4]
- League Of Ireland
- National Hurling League
- National Football League (Ireland)
He was assigned commentary duties for the 1985 European Cup Final, before which he witnessed the Heysel Stadium disaster.[5] He was assigned commentary duties for the UEFA Euro 2020.[6]
Other interests
Canning played association football for University College Cork A.F.C. and College Corinthians and played minor and junior Gaelic football for St Finbarr's.[1]
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- Gaelic games commentators
- Irish lecturers
- Irish schoolteachers
- Irish sports broadcasters
- Irish television personalities
- People educated at Coláiste Chríost Rí
- RTÉ television presenters
- St Finbarr's Gaelic footballers
- St Finbarr's hurlers
- Republic of Ireland men's association footballers
- Men's association football players not categorized by position
- College Corinthians A.F.C. players
- Broadcasters from Cork (city)
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- 20th-century Irish sportsmen