{"id":401967,"date":"2026-03-24T20:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/401967\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:59:20","slug":"he-was-the-greatest-broadcaster-weve-ever-had-brolly-spillane-and-orourke-reunite-in-tribute-to-michael-lyster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/401967\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He was the greatest broadcaster we\u2019ve ever had\u2019 \u2013 Brolly, Spillane and O\u2019Rourke reunite in tribute to Michael Lyster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RT\u00c9 Sunday Game presenter Michael Lyster, right, with panalists, from left, Colm O'Rourke, Joe Brolly and Pat Spillane ahead of Lyster's final Sunday Game broadcast prior to the All-Ireland SFC final between Dublin and Tyrone at Croke Park back in September 2018. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9a725976-9470-44e5-ab64-abd461fc249d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">RT\u00c9 Sunday Game presenter Michael Lyster, right, with panalists, from left, Colm O&#8217;Rourke, Joe Brolly and Pat Spillane ahead of Lyster&#8217;s final Sunday Game broadcast prior to the All-Ireland SFC final between Dublin and Tyrone at Croke Park back in September 2018. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Sunday Game dream team of Joe Brolly, Pat Spillane and Colm O\u2019Rourke reunited to pay a glowing tribute to their fallen colleague Michael Lyster, after the legendary RT\u00c9 broadcaster passed away last weekend at the age of 71.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The star-studded trio were box-office television on The Sunday Game during the GAA championship for nearly three decades, ably assisted and guided by Lyster\u2019s genius as host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 Sunday Game presenter Michael Lyster, right, with panalists, from left, Colm O&#8217;Rourke, Joe Brolly and Pat Spillane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[80068,18,19,17,46040,886,87615,132],"class_list":["post-401967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-colm-orourke","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joe-brolly","tag-michael-verney","tag-pat-spillane","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116286165073795906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}