style. In spite of this O'Herlihy fronted RTÉ's television coverage of the Olympic Games that year. He also became involved in the production of various sports programmes. O'Herlihy was not long in the RTÉ Sports department when he became a regular presenter for such programmes as Sunday Sport and Sports Stadium. In 1978 he became RTÉ Soccer host alongside Eamon Dunphy, in 1984 John Giles joined the panel and Liam Brady did in 1998. Since 1974 Bill became RTÉ's chief sports presenter for such events as all Olympic Games until 2012, FIFA World Cups until 2014, UEFA European Football Championships until 2012 and European and World Track and Field Championships. He hosted RTÉ highlights of the Ryder Cup in 2006 when it was at the K Club in Ireland and continued to present coverage of Ireland's soccer internationals for RTÉ, along with Eamon Dunphy, Johnny Giles and Liam Brady. He hosted RTÉ's coverage of rugby union in the 1980s and early 1990s. However, when RTÉ attained the rights to cover the English Premier League in 1992, Tom McGurk took over as host of RTÉ's coverage of rugby union. O'Herlihy covered the Premier League, Irish Internationals & The Champions League before dropping the Premier League in 2008. He continued to cover the Olympic Games and International Athletic Championships such as the European & World Athletics. He presented the first Rugby World Cup on RTÉ television in 1987 and, with Jim Carney, co-presented the first edition of The Sunday Game in 1979. In 2012, while covering Chloe Magee's progress at the 2012 Summer Olympics O'Herlihy remarked that badminton was once considered "a mainly Protestant sport". RTÉ subsequently received a number of complaints, and while Magee criticised the remarks, the argument was made that the incident inadvertently reflected a complex historical reality. O'Herlihy presented RTÉ Sport's coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, his ninth FIFA World Cup. He fronted 18 European Championships and FIFA World Cups for RTÉ, the last of which came in 2014. This proved to be the final tournament with O'Herlihy at the helm; he retired at its conclusion and died the following year. At the time of his death O'Herlihy was working on a sports version of Reeling in the Years, which RTÉ immediately cancelled. Public relations and political advice As a result of the fallout of the 7 Days tribunal, O'Herlihy appeared to quit journalism altogether in