David Courell
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622 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 21 May
David Courell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he was telling me that they had north of 80 million views of content in relation to the Hungary game alone.
Like there is nothing that moves this country in a way like football does.
If you fast forward to Czechia, obviously it didn't bring about the result that we all aspired for.
But, you know, peak viewership, 1.6 million on RT2.
a further one million on rte player like they are record numbers for for sporting for a sporting occasion so it is clear the appetite is there the hunger is there you know i think this is the potential that i talk about that i don't feel we have consistently qualified for major tournaments
But people got a flavor of what I believe is going to be a real celebration of football come Euro 2028 when the men's team are representing on home soil or 2027 in Brazil when the women's team, which, you know, under Carla now we've secured a playoff and a very favorable one as we move into the back end of this year.
Yeah, so it hasn't been easy.
I think it's fair to say there's a lot of demands on Irish football.
There's a lot of ground we need to make up in every aspect.
You know, we referenced facilities earlier, but also, you know, digital adoption or service levels.
Everything continues to require more and more investment.
So what we do is try and budget prudently.
We don't plan for qualification for major tournaments.
That is a bonus.
So that is something that ensures that we have a much higher confidence level going into our forecasts.
But also, if you think about, you know, in the last probably 12, 18 months, one of the big areas of focus that I had was around our financial restructure.
OK, so we had a debt horizon running through to 2031.
That was agreed in 2020 when we did the initial support package.
Now, that was would have resulted in
pay downs on a very aggressive rate, which we have been meeting over recent years.
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