Tony O'Donoghue

He called the action for over 40 years from the Munich Olympics in 1972 to the London Games in 2012 and was the voice for some of Ireland's greatest sporting ...

Please review their details and accept them to load the content. He was also a member of the Association of Track and Field statisticians and involved in producing their ATFS annual, considered the stats bible of the sport. The Dubliner called the action for over 40 years from the Munich Olympics in 1972 to the London Games in 2012 and was the voice for some of Ireland’s greatest sporting moments.

TRIBUTES have poured in after the passing of longtime athletics commentator for RTE Tony O'Donoghue.His career with the national broadcaster spanned o.

Retweeting the above clip of Coughlan's 1983 career highlight, he said: "RIP Tony O'Donoghue, one of the great athletics commentators." Well-known athletics journalist Cathal Dennehy added to the outpouring of tributes in memory of O'Donoghue. TRIBUTES have poured in after the passing of longtime athletics commentator for RTE Tony O'Donoghue.

O'Donoghue was also one of the country's most distinguished statisticians and chroniclers of sport.

Among his many commentating highlights was calling Eamonn Coghlan’s historic World Championship win over the 5,000 metres in Helsinki in 1983. O’Donoghue was for many years a senior member of the Association of Track and Field Statisticians (ATFS). In 2005, he published the book of Irish Championship Athletics 1873-1914, after years of research, incorporating all the GAA and IAAA championships for the period and in addition the Ireland versus Scotland internationals and cross-country championships.

O'Donoghue spent over 40 years working with RTE and covered every Olympic Games between 1972 and 2012. An athlete in his younger days he helped to colour the ...

He was so much more than a fine athletics commentator - a historian & statistician who backed his commentaries with painstaking deep ‘pre-internet’ research". Allen quote tweeted with a link to the aforementioned Coghlan commentary in 1983. I loved Tony as a commentator, and he was great company. As Coughlan approached the winning line O'Donoghue exclaimed, "Eamonn Coghlan is going to do what he has been threatening to do all his life.” Des Cahill wrote, "Really sad news. An athlete in his younger days he helped to colour the sport and boost its popularity during the years he spent behind the microphone.