Off The Ball is the leading multi-platform sports media brand in Ireland. Founded in 2002, the company has consistently brought both the biggest names in Irish sport and the biggest stories to otbsports.com.
Winner of the Best Online Publisher at the 2019 Digital Spider Awards, otbsports.com boasts the biggest and best names, stories, video, podcasts, video articles and features in Irish sport. The site has broken the biggest news stories of the last year, like Mick McCarthy’s sudden departure as the Republic of Ireland manager, held the best digital shows, like the now-famous Roy Keane & Gary Neville roadshow, along with hosting huge show regulars, like Brian O’Driscoll, Shane Lowry, Brian Kerr, Joe Brolly, Ronan O’Gara, Kieran Donaghy, Kevin Kilbane, Alan Quinlan, Kenny Cunningham and so many more, all part of the otbsports.com experience.
The top performers and analysts across a range of sports speak with Off The Ball everyday to give our otbsports.com fans what they want. It is a one-stop-shop for our community of sport fans.
Otbsports.com and Off The Ball’s social media channels are home to the biggest and best guests in Irish and global sport. Our followers are loyal and content informative and entertaining.
Our portfolio of shows include:
- OTB AM (sponsored by Gillette)
- OTB PM
- Newsround
- The Football Show
- Live Champions Cup commentary
- Monday + Wednesday Night Rugby
- Live Premier League commentary
- The Hurling Show
- Thursday Football with John Giles
- Leaders’ Questions with Stuart Lancaster
- The Saturday Panel
- The Sunday Paper Review
- Friday Night Racing
- The OTB Brief
- Off The Bench
- Off The Brawl
- Off The Top Rope
- Golf weekly on Off The Ball
- State of the Union with Keith Wood
- The History of Sport, with Paul Rouse
- The Crappy Quiz
- The Snap
- Team 33
Off The Ball’s radio show is broadcast weeknights on Newstalk FM (7-10pm, Monday–Thursday & 7-9pm, Fridays), featuring sports news, review and analysis as well as providing your weekend sport with live commentaries and discussion on Saturday and Sunday from 1pm-6pm.
OTB AM (7.30am -10am) is Ireland’s first and only sports breakfast show, available to watch and listen live every morning. It includes review, opinion, features, the latest news, previews, interviews with the biggest names in Irish sport and analysis from our top analysts. The show is available across all of the OTB social channels, and the OTB Sports app, recently launched.
The OTB Sports app has over 40 different podcast streams, live scores, news, analysis, debate and comment in written, video and audio form! It is the one-stop-stop for every sport fan.
The show is available across our social channels, whilst many choose to consume the audio on their morning commute on otbsports.com.