RTÉ athletics commentator Tony O’Donoghue has passed away. Tributes have poured in following the death of a longtime athletics commentator. Let’s see How did Tony O’Donoghue die and Tony O’Donoghue Cause of death in detail.
How did Tony O’Donoghue die?
Tony O’Donoghue, an RTÉ sports commentator, has passed away.
Coach Liam Hennessy reported the death of Tony O’Donoghue on Twitter.
Sad to report the passing of Tony O'Donoghue distinguished statistician and chronicler of our sport's history. For many years Tony was an RTE commentator and called Eamonn Coghlan's historic world 5000 metres from Helsinki 1983
— Liam Hennessy (@LiamHennessy6) February 26, 2023
Being a former athlete, he provided the soundtrack for many of the most memorable events in Irish athletics history. The most notable of these was Eamonn Coghlan’s 5000-meter World Championship triumph in 1983.
O’Donoghue made a memorable statement as they neared the finish line:
“Eamonn Coghlan is going to do what he has been threatening to do all his life.”
Tony O’Donoghue Cause of death
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Who was Tony O’Donoghue?
Tony O’Donoghue was an Irish sports commentator and Group Soccer Correspondent for RTÉ, Ireland’s national radio and television broadcaster. Tony completed his studies in history and economics at UCC before being involved in the Irish music scene. Before the FIFA World Cup in Japan and Korea, O’Donoghue became well-known for his reports on the events in Saipan that caused Ireland captain Roy Keane to leave the team’s camp. In an interview with Keane, the Manchester United player expressed his displeasure with the coach, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), and the puzzling circumstances surrounding Stephen Ireland’s expulsion from the Ireland team under Steve Staunton. Since the mid-’90s ticket scandals, he has covered all the major FAI-related issues.
He was RTÉ Television News’ first-ever sports news journalist before moving on to become the program’s first-ever group soccer correspondent. He was a commentator and presenter for RTÉ’s two main radio sports programmes, Saturday Two to Five and Sunday Sport, before joining the newsroom. In the 1980s, O’Donoghue also made contributions to the music publication Hot Press and managed the Cork-born rock band Cypress Mine. He covered numerous Cork City Football Club matches for RTÉ’s regional and national radio as a freelancer, notably Cork City’s matches against Torpedo Moscow in 1989 and Bayern Munich in 1991.
Since 1987, he has covered each All-Ireland hurling and football final, specializing in Gaelic sports, athletics, and association football. His first significant broadcast as a sports commentator was the 1989 Cork County Senior Hurling Championship Final between Sarsfields and Glen Rovers. He then commented on other significant inter-county championship games for RTÉ radio, including Munster football and hurling games, Connacht finals, and one of the four infamous Dublin v Meath matches in 1991. During the 1995 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, between Charlie Redmond’s first and second red cards, he provided television viewers with a sideline report on Feargal Logan’s ankle injury.
The Inside Track, the name of the Drivetime music and sports radio show he hosted for RTÉ Cork 89FM in the 1990s, is another regular column he wrote for the RTÉ Sports website on football-related topics. He also wrote a sports column for the Irish Examiner newspaper for several years starting in 1996. He covered the Olympic Games in Sydney (2000), Athens (2004), and Barcelona (1992), which had a remarkable trackside interview with Sonia O’Sullivan (2004). He did not go to the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup, but he did host RTÉ’s afternoon highlights program.
When Martin O’Neill led Ireland, O’Donoghue and O’Neill frequently engaged in tense interviews, particularly during the (failed) 2016–2017 World Cup qualification campaign for Russia. On November 17, three days before the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, O’Donoghue encountered Qatari police while attempting to film there.
Tributes to Tony O’Donoghue
Many people expressed their profound sympathies to his family and expressed how much they loved him.
Cathal tweeted,
“There is one lap to go and it is becoming increasingly difficult to remain cool and objective about the outcome of this race.” “Eamonn Coghlan is going to do what he has been threatening to do his whole life…” RIP Tony O’Donoghue, one of the great athletics commentators.”
Martina tweeted,
“Sad news, I was in Croke park that day and they showed the race in the big screen, incredible run. RIP Tony”
One of the worst things anyone can go through in life is losing a loved one. Any journey must have a destination at the end. The person’s time on earth has regrettably come to an end now that they have died. We wish him eternal peace and send our thoughts and prayers to his loved ones, family, friends. May he rest in peace.
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