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Sat 02 Feb 2007The unsporting schedule shuffle of RTÉRadioReview:Radio is easy business for sports fans - or so I'm told. Apart from the avalanche of weekend coverage on all stations - bar Lyric FM - there's BBC's Five Live, Newstalk's Off the Ball and maybe Des Cahill's Drivetime Sport - and that's it, done and dusted.In my house, big GAA matches involve extension leads, a strategically placed radio and the telly on mute so that the great Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh's commentary can be heard. It never matters that for some weird satellite-related reason the commentary coming from the radio is always a beat behind the pictures. Even slightly out of synch, no one can beat Ó Muircheartaigh.