Monday
Eurosport (8.0 a.m.) - Live Swimming: The World Championships. Ireland's Colin Lowth and Adrian O'Connor go in today's 200 metre freestyle heats. Highlights of the day's action at 4.0 and 10.0.
Eurosport (7.0) - Live: FIFA World Player of the year. Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Dennis Bergkamp and Zinedine Zidane are the four contenders for the World Player of the Year award, announced live from Disneyland in Paris. FIFA will also present its annual Fair Play awards to the Republic of Ireland supporters, for their "exemplary behaviour", and to Josef Zovinec, an amateur player from Slovakia who played 60 years without a booking or sending-off. "Admirable," some might say. "Big girl's blouse," others might mutter. TnaG (9.0) - Ole Ole. The Ole Ole team travelled to Madrid on Saturday for the derby between Atletico and Real, and if you tune in tonight you'll see presenter Micheal O'Domhnaill having to fend off the amorous attentions of Atletico's seven foot tall mascot on the sidelines, as he tried to set the scene for the match. "He was like a cross between a bear and a Tellytubby," said O'Domhnaill, "but I just ignored him and kept going - what else could you do?"
Tuesday
TnaG (10.30) - World Cup Gold: Spain v Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland's finest hour in Valencia, against Spain in the 1982 World Cup Finals.
Wednesday
Eurosport (10.0 a.m.) - Live Swimming: The World Championships. Today's Irish competitors are Adrian O'Connor and Nick O'Hare (100 metre Freestyle heats) and Colin Lowth (200m Butterfly heats). Highlights at 4.0 and 10.15.
Sky Sports 2 (2.0) - Cricket: Australia v New Zealand (World Series Cup). Highlights of the one-day international from Sydney. Repeated on Sky Sports 3 at 7.0.
Sky Sports 2 (7.30) - Live Soccer: Port Vale v Arsenal (FA Cup Third Round Replay). Highlights of this and the rest of the night's cup replays on The Big Match (UTV) at 10.40.
Thursday
Eurosport (10.0 a.m.) - Live Swimming: The World Championships. New Ross brothers Adrian and Hugh O'Connor compete in today's 100m backstroke heats. Highlights at 4.0 and 10.15. TnaG (10.30) - World Cup Gold: Republic of Ireland v Spain. The World Cup qualifier at Lansdowne Road in April 1989.
Friday
Eurosport (10.0 a.m.) - Live Swimming: The World Championships. Today's Irish competitor is Colin Lowth in the 100m butterfly heats. Highlights at 4.0 and 10.15.
Network Two (8.05) - The Best of The Grip. Highlights from the last season of The Grip, including interviews with Nick Popplewell, Ken Doherty and Shay Given.
Network Two (8.30) - Action Replay: Cork v Kerry (1976 Munster Football final replay). Network Two take a leaf out of TnaG's book by dipping in to the archives to produce this new series, which will feature some of the great sporting highlights through the years. Tonight Jason Sherlock presents one of the classic Munster football finals.
Saturday
Eurosport (10 a.m.) - Live Swimming: The World Championships. Nick O'Hare goes in today's 50m freestyle heats.
Network Two (2.55) - Saturday Sport Live: Sligo Rovers v Shelbourne (FAI National League).
Sunday
Eurosport (10.0 a.m.) - Live Swimming: The World Championships. Adrian and Hugh O'Connor are back in the pool today for the 200m backstroke heats.
RTE1 (12.0) - Live: Euro 2000 Championship Draw. Live from Ghent, the draw for the qualifying rounds of the 2000 European Championships, which will be jointly hosted by Belgium and Holland. Irish fans were shattered to learn that they will not be making their bi-annual footballing trip to Lithuania because, like us, they have been placed amongst the third tier of seeds so we can't be drawn against them. There's always Latvia, though.
Sky Sports 1 (3.0) - Live Soccer: Everton v Chelsea (Premiership, kick-off 4.0).
Sky Sports 2 (3.30) - International Cricket: Australia v South Africa (World Series Cup). Highlights from Perth of the one-day international.
