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The NIFL Premiership, known as the Sports Direct Premiership for sponsorship purposes, [2] and Irish Premiership colloquially, [3] [4] is a professional association football league which operates as the highest division of the Northern Ireland Football League – the national league in Northern Ireland. The NIFL Premiership was established as ...
BBC Northern Ireland ( Irish: BBC Thuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: BBC Norlin Airlan) is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Northern Ireland. It is widely available across both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland . BBC Northern Ireland is one of the four BBC national regions, together with the BBC English ...
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4 , as well as solely ...
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day , Test Match Special , Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon .
Sport in Northern Ireland plays an important role in the lives of many Northern Irish people. Most sports are organised on an all-Ireland basis, for example rugby union, Gaelic games, basketball, rugby league, hockey, and cricket, whereas others, like association football and netball are organised on a separate basis for Northern Ireland. [1]
Governing body. The Irish Football Association is the organising body for football in Northern Ireland, and was historically the governing body for the whole of Ireland until the FAI split away. [citation needed] The IFA has a permanent seat on the International Football Association Board, which is responsible for the laws of the game.
Budget. £31,304,000 (2011-12) Staff. 83. Website. www .sportni .net. Formerly called. Sports Council of Northern Ireland. Sport Northern Ireland ( Irish: Spórt Thuaisceart Éireann) is the regional government sports council (funding body) for Northern Ireland .
The Northern Ireland Open was first played in 2016, and was won by Mark King. The 2021 event was the first of four Home Nations Series events, and the third world ranking tournament of the 2019–20 snooker season. The event took place from 9 to 17 October 2021 at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland.