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Michael Lyster is an Irish sports broadcaster who is best known for his long-running role as the presenter of The Sunday Game, a sports highlights show on RTÉ. He has been a presenter on the show since 1984.
Lyster was born in Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland, on 11 April 1954. He attended St. Augustine's College in Dungarvan and later studied at University College Dublin, where he graduated with a degree in English and History.
Lyster began his broadcasting career in 1976, when he joined RTÉ as a continuity announcer. He later moved to the sports department, where he worked as a reporter and presenter. He has been the presenter of The Sunday Game since 1984.
Lyster has also presented a number of other sports programmes on RTÉ, including The Championship, The All-Ireland Football Final, and The All-Ireland Hurling Final. He has also presented the RTÉ Sports Awards and the RTÉ Sports Person of the Year Awards.
Lyster has won numerous awards for his broadcasting work, including the PPI Radio Award for Sports Broadcaster of the Year in 2004 and the PPI Radio Award for Sports Programme of the Year in 2005.
As of 2021, Michael Lyster's net worth is estimated to be approximately $2 million.
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Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland |
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His wife is Anne Lyster (1985–present)
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Michael Lyster Net Worth
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Timeline
After suffering ill health, Lyster decided to retire from The Sunday Game at the end of 2018, with the 2018 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final his last as presenter.
On 5 June 2015 at 11:32pm Lyster had a major heart attack and was rushed to hospital. He had been playing golf in Galway with friend Vincent Hogan who drove him back to Dublin afterwards. He left his mobile phone in Vincent's car who he rang from his house phone asking him to return to the house with the mobile. Hogan returned to find him collapsed on the ground in the hallway. Lyster's wife Anne performed CPR while Vincent called for an ambulance. He had a pacemaker fitted after receiving treatment. Lyster later disclosed that he had suffered from a heart condition for a number of years prior to the attack.
In 2007, Lyster took part in Celebrity Jigs 'n' Reels. Famously, when a penalty was applied to Hannah Craig during the 2012 Summer Olympics, Carl Dunne, head of the Irish canoeing team, telephoned RTÉ's analyst to discuss the possibility of appealing the decision. The analyst took the telephone call live on television as a bemused Lyster watched on.
In 1988, Lyster won a Jacob's Award for his work on The Sunday Game. Since then Lyster has covered a number of sports for RTÉ across all codes and has been an ever-present feature on RTÉ's coverage of Olympic Games. He remains, however, mostly associated with Gaelic games and has been one of the main presenters of the All-Star and the RTÉ Sports Person of the Year awards shows.
Lyster has been married to his wife Anne since 1985 and together they have two boys and two girls. They live in Cabinteely in Dublin. Lyster has been interested in rally driving which he has enjoyed since the early 1990s. He has partook in many main events including the Cork International Rally where he finished third in 1992, the Circuit of Ireland Rally and the Killarney Rally of the Lakes. His co-driver is Irish Independent sports writer Vincent Hogan.
In 1980, Lyster joined RTÉ as a sports bulletin broadcaster with Radio 2, however, as his career progressed he began presenting programmes and covering high-profile sporting events. In his first year at the national broadcaster he also covered the Olympic Games on radio. One of the highlights of his early career was covering the 1982 and 1983 All-Ireland hurling finals for radio. In 1984 Lyster took over as presenter of The Sunday Game, a post he held for 34 years. That same year he was one of the main presenters for RTÉ's television coverage of the Olympic Games, co-hosting with Moya Doherty on Daybreak LA. This was RTÉ's first venture into breakfast television.
Michael Lyster (born 11 April 1954) is an Irish radio and television broadcaster who works for RTÉ. He mainly covers sporting events, such as Gaelic games and Olympic Games. He best known for presenting The Sunday Game Live, which he hosted from 1984 to 2018.