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Michael Lyster is to present The Sunday Game for the final time this summer after 34 years at the helm.

The well-known figure has presented the GAA show since 1984 but this year's All-Ireland finals will be his last.

He will bid farewell to RTE next February when turning 65 - the compulsory retirement age for the broadcaster's employees.

A familiar face to all GAA fans, Lyster presented a popular highlights programme for nearly a quarter of a century before turning his hand to anchoring its live matches.

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The host, along with regular panelists such as Colm O'Rourke, Joe Brolly and Pat Spillane, has covered many of the sport's most iconic moments over a long broadcasting career.

He joined RTE in the early 1980s having been a reporter for the Tuam Herald for seven years.

In recent years, Lyster revealed that he suffered from heart issues, enduring a "massive heart attack" in 2015.

He told Sean O'Rourke on RTE Radio that his wife Anne had to give him CPR as he lay in the hallway of their Dublin home, waiting for an ambulance.

"The ambulance took about 10 minutes to arrive," said Lyster.

"Anne was basically keeping me alive at that stage. Anne had done the first-aid courses and fact that she knew what to do kept me alive. She saved my life."

Among those tipped to fill Lyster's Sunday Game shoes are Darragh Moloney, who currently hosts RTE's live soccer coverage.

And Joanne Cantwell, who has presented a number of sports events for the broadcaster.

Lyster will be back at work tonight for a new series of League Sunday as the football and hurling inter-county action gets back into full swing.