ireland past championship

Past champions
1997 - Dublin Blues 1998 - Northside Saints 1999 - Dublin Blues 2000 - Churchtown Warriors 2001 - Cork Bulls 2002 - Dublin City Exiles 2003 - Dublin City Exiles 2004 - Clontarf Bulls 2005 - Treaty City Titans 2006 - Treaty City Titans 2007 - Treaty City Titans 2008 - Carlow Crusaders 2009 - Treaty City Titans
League in Northern Ireland
The early stages of a competition in Northern Ireland are under development and progress was made when the RFL, RLI and members of the puplic met in Belfast in autumn 2008. The response to the meeting was positive and the competition is likely to kick off in the summer of 2009. Confirmed teams so far include:
• Ballynahinch Rabbitohs
• Belfast Bulldogs
• Portadown Pumas
• Strangford Sharks
• Fermanagh Redskins
• Magherafelt Mercenaries
Ballynahinch Bulls won the 2009 NI conference defeating East Belfast Bulldogs in the final.
Media
There are two weekly rugby league newspapers in the UK Rugby Leaguer & League Express and League Weekly and two monthly magazines, Rugby League World and Thirteen Magazine. Most of their content covers the sport in Britain, Australia and New Zealand but Irish rugby league is also covered. These publications are usually only available by subscription in Ireland.
A rugby union publication called Emerald Rugby covers rugby league in Ireland each month.
BBC Sport own the rights to broadcast a highlights package called the Super League Show which was first broadcast in Northern Ireland in 2008. Prior to this it had only been broadcast in the North of England. Rugby League Raw is not broadcast in Northern Ireland despite the BBC owning the rights to do so. The BBC covers the Challenge Cup from the rounds in which the top clubs enter.
BBC Radio Five Live and BBC Five Live Sports Extra carry commentary from a selection of Super League matches each week,.
Sky has the rights to show live Super League games; one or two live matches are broadcast often fronted by Mike Stephenson and Eddie Hemmings. Sky also hold the rights to show the Rugby League Tri-Nations live, whilst highlights are shown on BBC Sport. Australia's National Rugby League and State of Origin were shown until 2005-06 season when Setanta Sports outbid Sky for the rights.
Setanta Sports Ireland broadcasted highlights of the 2005 and 2006 pre-season Dublin challenge matches, and the 2005 European Nations Cup, on its Sports Weekly and Sports Monthly programmes.
Manchester based Channel M show some National League and amateur rugby on their Code XIII programme.
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