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Vikki Wall was back on the show this morning to chat about a year of ups and downs for the Meath star!
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Aisling O'Reilly speaks with Kilkerrin-Clonberne's Niamh Divvily and Kilmacud Crokes' Lauren Magee ahead of the Ladies Football Club Championship final this weekend.
2024 marks the first year of AIB’s sponsorship of the Ladies Football Club Championships, its 12th year sponsoring the AIB Camogie All-Ireland Club Championships and 34th year sponsoring the AIB GAA All-Ireland Club Championships.
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Welcome to Tuesday's OTB Breakfast Bite - your FREE bitesize taster of this morning's Off The Ball Breakfast.
On this morning's show, Graham Hunter previews tonight's Champions League action and gives us the latest from La Liga.
Former Scotland scrum-half Greig Laidlaw gives us his view of how Andy Farrell's Lions squad might look.
And our own Will O'Callaghan provides his Hurling Power Rankings, something that has become quite contentious within OTB Towers.
This morning's Bite looks at the freshening of the Galway hurling panel, and the GAA's current issues with Revenue.
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Welcome along to the latest episode of The Football Pod as James O'Donoghue, Paddy Andrews and Tommy Rooney get stuck into the latest in Gaelic Football, we’re talking the club finals and much more too.
(01:00) - quiet pints or the european markets?
(05:00) - Errigal Ciaran beat Kilcoo and emerge from Ulster
(15:00) - Dr. Crokes’ All-Ireland credentials…
(24:00) - Paddy vs. James - The Football Pod Christmas Quiz
(36:00) - Getting out at the top, Brian Fenton says goodbye…
(48:00) - Our very early 2025 league hype…This is our final Monday show of 2024, but this weekend we’ll have another special episode of The Football Pod Club (go check out our other episodes if you’ve missed them) - and we’ll be back on the first Monday of January!
The Football Pod Club is brought to you by AIB. Proud sponsors of the Football, Ladies Football, Hurling and Camogie All Ireland Club Championships . Check out #TheToughest for more.
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Welcome along to the latest episode of The Football Pod as James O'Donoghue, Paddy Andrews and Tommy Rooney look at the new world of Gaelic Football as Special Congress say yes to the FRC’s proposals for 2025, the club All-Ireland series keeps on giving, and some stars of the game say goodbye.
(01:00) - Welcome to the new World and TFP Christmas Party
(04:00) - Cuala and Coolera/Strandhill win, All-Ireland favourites?
(15:00) - New Rules - Gavin masterclass, which Counties will it suit, refs?
(26:00) - The Football Pod listener Q+A on the new rules.
(41:00) - Dublin retirements - how will they cope in 2025?
(47:00) - Cillian O’Connor and Mayo Football - what’s going on?
(55:00) - Derry get Paddy Tally from Kerry, but lose Chrissy McKaigue…
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Welcome along to Episode 3 of The Football Pod Club with AIB, as Monaghan stars Rory Beggan and Conor McManus sit down with Tommy Rooney, Paddy Andrews and James O'Dononghue at Concra Wood, to chat through Monaghan’s rise, Beggan’s American Dream, and whether Conor McManus will play for his county again - there’s all of that and so much more, enjoy!
Chapters...
(00:30) - Welcome
(02:30) - Will Conor McManus play for Monaghan again?
(08:00) - Rory Beggan and the ‘American Dream’...
(20:00) - Monaghan in the 2000s, and Conor’s breakthrough.
(27:00) - Scotstown, Clontibret and the Ulster club championship.
(36:00) - Monaghan’s rise from 2013, Malachy O’Rourke, chasing Sam Maguire.
(41:00) - Beggan and changing goalkeeper
(49:00) - Dublin in 2023 - why did Monaghan fall short
(01:03:00) - The FRC and new rules, best football memories, Stephen Cluxton
There's all of that and so much more across our chat with two Monaghan legends, stay tuned to The Football Pod - we’ve got the next show in our series coming to you very soon...#GAA - #GaelicFootball
#TheFootballPod is brought to you with thanks to AIB, proud sponsors of the Hurling, Camogie, Ladies Football and Gaelic Football All-Ireland club championships, check out #TheToughest for more!
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Welcome to Tuesday's OTB Breakfast Bite - just a wee taster of this morning's Off The Ball Breakfast.
On this morning's show, former Leinster and Ireland hooker James Tracy examines the emergence of Gus McCarthy.
Spirit of Shankly & The Late Challenge's Gareth Roberts on Premier League fans coming together to combat rising ticket prices, and his view on the Mo Salah contract saga.
Plus, Daily Mail North-East Football Correspondent Craig Hope on a mis-firing Newcastle.
But as Ger, Arthur and Colm perused the morning papers they touched on the mini exodus from the Mayo panel as both Padraig O'Hora and Cillian O'Connor step back. Particularly, does that Mayo team that pushed Dublin to their limits actually get the credit it deserves?
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OTB reporter, Aisling O'Reilly, was at the launch of “Game Changer”, a project that aims to harness the influence of Gaelic Games in Irish society to tackle domestic, sexual and gender-based violence against women.
She chats to Minister for Justice for Ireland, Helen McEntee, President of the GAA, Jarlath Burns, Frances Fitzgerald, a former member of the European Parliament, and Barbara Condon, CEO of Ruhama. Declan McNally, whose sister Natalie was murdered at 15 weeks pregnant in 2022, also speaks on his late sister and how the GAA has helped him and his family.
Game Changer is a collaboration between the GAA, Ruhama and White Ribbon Campaign Ireland (Men’s Development Network) with support from the LGFA, Camogie Association and the statutory agency Cuan.
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In this special episode of Inner Drive, Off The Ball give the floor to five of Ireland's best athletes (fresh from Paris 2024) in Philip Doyle, Orla Comerford, Thomas Barr, Colin Judge and Stacey Flood.
No interviewer, no restrictions, just athletes talking to each other about experiences only they can truly understand.
Inner Drive, with Allianz, proud sponsors of Paralympics Ireland and Team Ireland.
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Welcome to Thursday's OTB Breakfast Bite - your amuse-bouche for the Off The Ball Breakfast main course.
On this morning's show, a very special edition of You Had To Be There with Tommy Martin.
The end of an era for Dublin football is tackled by Roy Curtis.
And making illegal hand-passing in hurling an election issue with former Tipperary hurler Conor O'Donovan.
And this morning's Breakfast Bite zooms in on hurling, and the task of growing the game. As they ponder its effect in rugby, Ger, Arthur and Colm discuss whether names on jerseys in hurling could help the sport expand.
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Welcome to Episode 2 of The Football Pod Club with AIB, as nine-time All-Ireland winner, and recently retired Dublin star James McCarthy sits down with Tommy Rooney, Paddy Andrews and James O'Dononghue to chat through his incredible career, we caught up with James in the Ballymun Kickhams clubhouse, the perfect setting for this chat - do enjoy!
Chapters...
(00:30) - Intro and the decision to retire from Dublin.
(09:30) - Impact of injuries and enjoying the 'living wake'
(15:00) - Ballymun Kickhams: great days, regret and hope.
(21:00) - What shaped James McCarthy.
(24:00) - Developing Street Footballers - the future?
(27:00) - Jim Gavin's standards and Pat Gilroy's breakthrough.
(36:00) - Debuts" Cluxton's act and lessons from Paul Galvin.
(41:00) - Rivalries: McCarthy going red, Mayo and Kerry.
(49:00) - Dublin's Greatest: 2014 to 2017 - sliding doors and glory.
(01:00:00) - That dressing room: characters, friends, stepping away.
(01:06:00) - Paddy on why McCarthy is such a Dublin legend.
(01:13:00) - Quickfire: referees, AFL trials, new rules, toughest opponent.
There's all of that and so much more across our 90 minute chat - it’s James McCarthy like you’ve never heard him before, stay tuned to The Football Pod - we’ve got Ep. 3 coming next week...
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Welcome to this morning's OTB Breakfast Bite - a bitesize taster from this morning's Off The Ball Breakfast.
On this morning's show, Mayo legend Lee Keegan reflects on the retirement of Dublin midfielder Brian Fenton.
We speak to former Springbok Jean de Villiers.
United We Stand's Andy Mitten talks the arrival of Ruben Amorim at Old Trafford, and the enduring obsession with the club around the world.
Plus, Vinny Perth on Irish football's 2024.
This morning's Breakfast Bite sees Ger, Colm and Arthur looking at the morning papers, including a campaign to stamp out illegal hand passes from hurling, and Pep Guardiola's contract extension at Manchester City.
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Welcome to Tuesday's OTB Breakfast Bite - your bitesize sample of this morning's Off The Ball Breakfast.
On this morning's show, James Tracy and Matt Dawson join us for some rugby chat.
One of the country's best ever exports to the AFL, Zach Tuohy is with us in studio to discuss his new book 'The Irish Experiment'
And our GAA correspondent Tommy Rooney looks back on the dazzling career of Dublin midfielder Brian Fenton, who is the latest player to retire from inter-county football.
And it's there we begin our Breakfast Bite, as the Dubs exodus continues...
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Ballygunner defeat Loughmore-Castleiney by a scoreline of 1-27 to 1-16 as they drive on in their hunt for 5 Munster SHC titles in a row.
Reactions from Eamonn Kelly, Darragh O'Sullivan & Kevin Mahony
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On a very special edition of You Had To Be There, Gladiator II star Paul Mescal sat down with Eoin Sheahan to discuss GAA losses more painful than any Hollywood audition, the heartbreak of the Rugby World Cup quarter-final, and so much more!
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Welcome to Thursday's Off The Ball Breakfast Bite - your FREE taster of this morning's Off The Ball Breakfast.
Ger, Colm and Arthur opened this morning's packed show by discussing Michael Murphy's return to the Donegal football panel, coming as it does after him helping formulate Gaelic football's new rules.
The lads ponder the prospect of some other recent retirees being tempted into comebacks.
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Elsewhere on this morning's Off The Ball Breakfast you'll find...
Matt Williams previewing Ireland's date with the All Blacks
Just over a week after what would have been his 64th birthday, and ahead of his four-year anniversary, Marcela Mora y Araujo looks back on Diego Maradona's time in charge of Argentina.
And former Munster Rugby player Shane Leahy discuss his recent humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and Gaza
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Welcome along to the latest episode of The Football Pod as James O'Donoghue and Tommy Rooney catch up to talk the All-Stars, why they matter and what the night itself is like, we'll get stuck into the latest stories from club, county and life too!
(01:00) - Tommy at the All-Stars, James talks why they matter.
(23:00) - Interview with the Footballer of the Year Paul Conroy.
(28:00) - Peter Keane to Clare.
(34:00) - What are Derry going to do?
(41:00) - Club winners: Errigal Ciaran and Tinahely
(47:00) - The skill and importance of ground free-takers.
(55:00) - Amorin's aura, TFP club, 3-point goals and dodgy doppelgängers.
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Welcome to Episode 1 of The Football Pod Club with AIB, as All-Ireland winning duo Conor Turbitt and Aidan Forker join Paddy Andrews, James O'Dononghue and Tommy Rooney. We recorded this chat in the Carrickdale Hotel in mid-October and we cover so much, with the lads.
Timestamps
(00:30) - The Homecoming, Sam Maguire, Legacies.
(13:00) - How did Armagh the 2024 All-Ireland? Kieran McGeeney, building a squad.
(31:00) - Penalty shootouts, surviving the quadruple shootout heartbreak...
(42:00) - Breakthroughs: what shaped 'mini-Geezer' Forker and 'hotshot' Turbitt.
(50:00) - Club stories: Clann Eireann's rise and Maghery's epic moments.
(59:00) - Life off the field - soccer, teaching, mentality, celebrating scores
(01:08:00) - Quickfire: future of Football, Armagh's title defence, what do forwards and backs hate.
There's all of that and so much more across a brilliant hour and twenty minutes, stay tuned to The Football Pod for more.
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As part of Movember, Padraig O'Hora and Eoin Sheahan got out in the fresh air (and water!) to talk about the importance of reaching out for help when you need it.
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Welcome along to the latest episode of The Football Pod as Paddy Andrews, James O'Donoghue and Tommy Rooney catch up after an historic weekend in Gaelic Football - will the game change for 2025, do we want it to change? We get stuck into the Railway Cup games, the club action (up Meath Hill!) and some of the biggest stories in the game. Enjoy.
(01:00) - The ‘New Rules’ Debate
(28:00) - Club stories and fighting the wind.
(35:00) - Best winning session, Manager appointmentsThe Football Pod Club is brought to you by AIB. Proud sponsors of the Football, Ladies Football, Hurling and Camogie All Ireland Club Championships . Check out #TheToughest for more.
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