From #AskTed to beating Zealand, a guide to the year in sports broadcasting

A: #AskTed Ted Walsh's first brush with Twitter, live on RTÉ. Unique. "How's Craggy Island this time of year?"

B: BOD The final adieu in Paris. RTÉ's Clare McNamara: "Thank you for the last 15 years," and that was that. Not a dry eye in an Irish livingroom.

C: Confusion "What the hell is this? It's like Quidditch/hockey /lacrosse/rugby." An English Sky Sports viewer while watching the All-Ireland hurling final.

D: Dead and Buried The Cork team in the women's All-Ireland football final, 10 points down with 15 minutes to go. And then? Ninth All-Ireland in 10 years.

E: Expertise Paul Merson's World Cup preview on Sky: "If I'm being honest I don't know too much about Iran and that's why I've got to tip Nigeria."

F: Farewell "We'll leave it there so – okey-doke, goodnight and God bless." Bill O'Herlihy signing off after the World Cup final.

G: Gratitude To England's World Cup opponents for ensuring they didn't get out of their group – after Eamon Dunphy's pre-tournament threat: "If England get to the quarter-finals, I will show up in a dress." Phew.

H: Harmon Butch Harmon. "The doggonest thing I've ever seen," he said of the final day's Ryder Cup action. "Can we have another Ryder Cup next week," he asked. No.

I: ITV Some of their World Cup panel was left eggy-faced, eg Ian Wright: "I believe England can get out of that frightening-looking group quite easily."

J: Joe Brolly Not hugely happy about Sky getting their paws on GAA. Donal Óg Cusack's response: RTÉ's football panel "never really gets past the level of 'your jumper is gas Pat, but that's a desperate game of football isn't it?'" Oooh.

K: Katie Taylor "Céad míle fáilte go cathair Jeju anseo," said Seán Bán Breathnach, welcoming TG4's viewers to South Korea in the early hours of the morning to watch Taylor win her fifth world title.

L: Li Na The Chinese tennis player's speech after winning the Australian Open? Purr. Especially her tribute to her husband: "Thanks a lot, you're a nice guy . . . also, you're so lucky to find me"

M: Moyes, David And those agonising post-defeat telly chats. eg: "I don't know what we have to do to win." "THAT'S THE PROBLEM," the faithful hollered back.

N: No contest For the Fifa Puskas Award, Stephanie Roche's goal, transplanted from YouTube to our tellies.

O:"O'SheaaaaaaaaAAAaaAA" As George Hamilton put it when the John man scored in Germany.

P: Payback "Joe Brolly told us the production line was finished in Kerry – well Joe Brolly, what do you think of THAAAAAT?" A reasonable question put by Kieran Donaghy after the All-Ireland football final.

Q: Quarrelsome AKA George Hook. The highlight of his telly year? When he declared Ireland could only beat South Africa with the help of St Jude.

R: Ryder Cup Victory for Europe, led by Paul McGinley. "I would like to recognise my wife," he said in his opening ceremony speech. That's how much work he'd put in to the build-up, hardly home a day.

S: Second Captains Sublime, so many terrific interviews, none better than Paul McGrath.

T: Tributes Hard to top Liam Brady's warm salute to Danny Welbeck. "He's a game lad who runs around. When he has time to think, he's in trouble."

U: Unnerving The wait. Then finally: "Forward pass mate? I've got it." Ireland had won in Paris and were Six Nations champions. Nice.

V: Vampirish Luis Suarez. Every commentator on Earth going "he didn't . . . DID HE?!"

W: Whitesnake A mortified Stephen Maguire entering the Sheffield arena for the World Snooker Championships to the strains of Here I Go Again. Snooker as we never knew it.

X: X-rated For World Cup viewers in Brazil, that is. That 1-7 World Cup mullering by Germany? Gobsmacking.

Y: Yikes "When Neymar was shaping up to take that penalty I thought he was f**king dreading it." At which point Billo told Dunphy they were live on air. "We're not, are we?"

Z: Zealand, of the New variety Aiming for their fifth women's World Cup in a row. And then, thanks to TG4, we saw our bunch beat them. Magic.