Live Double-header To Kick-off Irish Premiership Season

BBC Sport NI will show 2 unrecorded matches during nan opening play of nan Irish Premiership season.

Larne's sojourn to Coleraine will beryllium unrecorded connected Friday 8 August astatine 19:45 BST pinch recently promoted Bangor welcoming Irish Cup runners-up Cliftonville connected Sunday 10 August astatine 15:00 BST.

Both matches will beryllium streamed unrecorded connected nan BBC iPlayer and nan BBC Sport website.

There will beryllium plentifulness of liking successful Coleraine's first crippled of nan run pinch nan Bannsiders having signed past season's prima performer Joel Cooper from champions Linfield, arsenic good arsenic nan likes of Kodi Lyons-Foster and Stephen Fallon.

Larne, meanwhile, will again beryllium among nan favourites to assistance nan Gibson Cup aft nan two-time champions vanished runners-up to nan Blues past year.

Bangor's hosting of nan Reds astatine Clandeboye Park represents Lee Feeney's men's first crippled successful nan apical formation since 2009.

On Saturday 9 August, location will beryllium unrecorded sum of nan remaining opening play fixtures, including champions Linfield hosting Irish Cup winners Dungannon Swifts, connected Radio Ulster's Sportsound on pinch unrecorded matter commentary and in-play clips connected nan BBC Sport NI website.