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PSG are the champions of Europe after crushing Inter 5-0 in the most one-sided final in European Cup history. The night was a complicated mix of emotions; awe at the sheer brilliance of PSG's performance, respect and affection for their charismatic coach Luis Enrique, sympathy for the hopelessly outclassed Inter, unease and foreboding at a second Champions League win in three seasons for a state-owned club, and, if you are into that kind of thing, maybe a little schadenfreude at the expense of Kylian Mbappe.After the game, Ken caught up (in rapid succession) with Miguel Delaney, Jonathan Liew and Diego Torres to hear their thoughts on the slaughter.Plus there's Ken scooting under the influence, Doue's abs and Dembele the destroyer.
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Having set off on Thursday morning on the early train out of Cork, our Littlest Hobo has made it to Munich via a dog-walk in Fairview Park and landing in a not so Munich adjacent airport. Ken and Eoin ponder if the young Premier League slayers of PSG can overcome Internazionale, a club that was winning European Cups before the Parisians even existed. While Manchester United won’t just give themselves a break from creating non-stop humiliating content.Plus, Murph dials in with the Frances Murphy TV Guide and Eoin prepares for a three-way TV ratings battle.
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Last night we righted a wrong and brought a live show to the beautiful people of Cork city for the first time in a very long time. And today we have the first of our interviews from a sold-out Everyman Theatre, with none other than John Egan. We speak about his late dad John, the Kerry football great, choosing soccer over GAA, what playing for Ireland means for him, Declan Rice’s fluid nationality, and setting the Moose loose. Plus there’s a certain Stephen Ward voice note, up close with Ronaldo and deciding whether to play injured or not.
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Donegal are the latest fancied team to suffer a setback in this thrilling All-Ireland football championship, losing to Tyrone in Ballybofey in another cracking game last Saturday evening. Oisin McConville and Paul Flynn reckon it doesn't have to be terminal - and if all the big guns have lost once this season, it might just stand to them in the long-run. We look ahead to Galway v Derry, and wonder aloud why Oisin is feeling a little smug. After the horrific events at Liverpool's victory parade yesterday we examine the inevitable reactions in the wake of tragedies of this nature. Plus there's Wilson's football wedding, electric Murph, Newcastle's flowers and "what would Fergie do".
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Bernie Sanders has been one of the most electrifying figures in American life for half a century, and is one of the most high-profile global political figures of the current moment. He joined us in our studio in Dublin this week for an exclusive interview.Bernie came excruciatingly close to being nominated as the candidate for the Democratic Party in 2016. Now, almost a decade later and as America and the World lives through the second Trump Presidency, he sat down with Ken to discuss how he is organising against Donald Trump, left v right populism and the slaughter in Gaza.
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We're into the time of celebrations, drifting clouds of flare smoke, players grabbing mics and managers maybe dropping them. Palace, Liverpool and Tottenham all celebrated their big trophy wins in the last few days while Katie McCabe has been leading Arsenal's celebrations after winning the Women's Champions League. Spurs fans: we see you, we believe you. We address the concerns of some Tottenham fans who felt Thursday's pod was too focused on the wretchedness of the Europa League final losers, and talk about Daniel Levy's big call. Jonathan Wilson joins us to pour out his heart about newly promoted playoff champions Sunderland AFC, and reveal new information on the table plan for his upcoming wedding. And we hear from Ken and Branno on their big Bernie experience.
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We have our provincial hurling final pairings, but Cork didn't exactly roar into the Munster final, enduring a nervy second half before finally putting Waterford away in Páirc Úi Chaoimh. They'll face Limerick in two weeks' time, and Jamie Wall and Liam Rushe say farewell to All-Ireland champions Clare, while looking ahead to Galway/Kilkenny in the Leinster final. Murph was in Parnell Park to see Dublin struggle under the new-found weight of expectation, and we also explore his new-found love for the New York Knicks... which we then pithily expose as lies and hypocrisy. We also reveal how Ken spent his Saturday - talking to Senator Bernie Sanders in our office!
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Spurs have won the Europa League, defeating Manchester United in one of the worst, best European finals of all time. Few coaches will ever taste the sweetness of the vindication in which Ange Postecoglou now basks. He told us, didn't he tell us? Apparently winning this trophy is not going to save his job - but at this point, who cares? Meanwhile, Manchester United plunge into hell. Mark Critchley and Gavin Cooney join us today to analyse the game. Has Ange taught us the unexpected lesson that to succeed you must renounce your beliefs? What about Ruben? Why does he equate change with weakness? And what mistake will Sir Big Jim make next?
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We're bringing you two shows on the World Service today, and the first is a special exclusive interview with Colin Healy. Last year, Colin's wife, Kelly, sadly passed away after a long battle with leukaemia. After taking a few weeks off work, he returned to his job as assistant to Ireland manager, Eileen Gleeson. In December, the FAI announced they wouldn't be renewing Colin's contract. Just over a month later, Colin released a highly critical statement in which he said he'd been assured by then FAI Director of Football, Marc Canham that he would be kept on, something which Canham has consistently denied. Colin also revealed he had turned down a job close to home with Cobh Ramblers believing his future lay with Ireland, a job that he says would have made life as a single father to his two kids, Arran and Hollie, far easier. His statement was the beginning of yet another controversial saga for the FAI. Colin sits down with us today to speak about what's been an extremely difficult year in his personal and professional life, and about how he now wants to draw a line in the sand and get on with his life.
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The gaelic football championship is so good we have Second Captains listeners flying in from Las Vegas to go to a match in Breffni Park in Cavan next month - Paul Flynn and Barry Cullinane are similarly enthusiastic as they discuss Dublin's resurgence in Salthill, and Mayo's capitulation to Cavan last weekend. There are 4 more games this weekend, and the question now is whether teams who went all out to win provincial finals can find the energy to win again 2 weeks later. It's also Europa League final day, and Big Ange has confirmed before the game that he is NOT a clown. Ken predicts a Manchester United victory in Bilbao... but who the hell knows what's going to happen, quite frankly.
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The New York Knicks have made the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in 25 years. That means crazy fans, celebrity fans and US Murph on the Irish airwaves.The League of Ireland's celeb manager Damien Duff is in the news again, this time for his looming presence on a grassy knoll. Ken reports.Plus there's sports nuts Timothée Chalamet, Pope university, Spike Lee at Cannes, and Offaly's time to shine.
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The FA Cup: good when the underdogs actually win. We look at some key moments of Palace's epic and emotional victory. Why didn't the VAR send Dean Henderson off? Why did Erling Haaland let Marmoush take the penalty? And did Oliver Glasner get in Pep Guardiola's head when he warned him, you play that system against us again and we will solve it? -And in Europa League final week, we wonder: how did Oliver Glasner manage to come in mid-season, switch to 3-4-3, and win most of his remaining PL games, while certain other managers who have tried to do something similar have failed? Damien Delaney was over to watch his old club win their first ever major trophy - he joins us to talk about an incredible day at Wembley.
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Limerick and Cork has been the marquee hurling rivalry of the recent past - but yesterday in the Gaelic Grounds, Limerick sent out a fairly thundering message that they are the team to beat in this year's All-Ireland championship. Liam Rushe and Jamie Wall are in studio to talk to us about Kyle Hayes' dominance, Cork's naive puck-out defence, why Waterford may worry Cork next weekend with a place in the Munster final at stake, and Dublin's 'moral victory' in Nowlan Park. There's also the arresting image of a former RTE GAA analyst climbing Everest in the nude, Aidan O'Shea, and more Cian Lynch magic.
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Two months ago Kate O'Connor put in one of the greatest performances in Irish athletics history when she won a World Indoor Championships silver medal in the Pentathlon, with a series of personal bests along the way. It was our first medal at the world indoors since Derval O’Rourke in 2006. If that wasn't impressive enough, she was also battling jetlag, illness and fatigue as two weeks before that, she won a European bronze medal in the Netherlands.She joined us at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast to talk about what has changed for her this year, how she first got into doing multi events, how she manages to juggle being a student while also competing with and beating full time athletes, how the father-daughter coaching dynamic works and just how those medal winning performances came about.Plus there's Ken's ancestor journey, Sean Dyche delivers some hard truths and Frances delivers the TV guide.
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Today Tim Vickery joins us to talk about Carlo Ancelotti taking over as the new coach of Brazil. Why have the five-time World Cup winners taken the radical step of hiring the first foreign full-time coach in their history? What attracted Ancelotti to the job? And most mysteriously of all, where have the Brazilian midfield playmakers gone? Tim outlines a theory…We also talk about Heimir’s PLEDGE that none of his players will be on holidays next June, plus some of the week’s transfer news and speculations.
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It has at times over the last few years been easy to wish away the provincial championships, but the Leinster and Ulster finals offered about as strong a rebuke to that idea as possible this past weekend. We've assembled a pair of fine, fine Gaelic football minds in Paul Flynn and Oisin McConville to run the rule over that pair of fine, fine matches and look ahead to the All Ireland series. It was another Ulster title for friend of the show Michael Murphy in a pretty stunning storyline for Donegal, but will Armagh be all the better for losing come the tail-end of the championship? The Leinster final may not have delivered on-field to quite the same extent, but it certainly did as an occasion, and Louth's win came as no surprise to Sam Mulroy who told Oisín a few short years ago this was on the cards. Ken has been at the history books again, and this time he comes across a hero/villain of the American Civil War, an impatient fiery fellow called Jubal... Early.Plus there's Lampard's blues, Steo's sportsmanship and Forest's PR fires.
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Last month, we all felt that anything that happens to Rory McIlroy after his Masters win will feel like an anti-climax. But here we are, in the week of the second major of the year, and... is that pressure piling on the shoulders of the new Grand Slam champ? Malachy Clerkin is in studio to talk to us about why Rory is so dominant at Quail Hollow, the venue of this week's PGA Championship, why Rory can now swing for the fences... and why Bryson DeChambeau will probably win. We also discuss Man United's plans for a celebratory BBQ, Jim Ratcliffe's morale-boosting staff ticket allocation for the Europa League final; and a new book written by a Second Captains world service member that meshes nicely with the action in Charlotte this weekend. Plus there's Ken's columns in the year 2082 and Scottie Scheffler doing hard time.
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The All-Ireland champions Clare are on the precipice after their defeat at home to Tipperary in a packed Cusack Park in Ennis on Saturday - but our analysts Liam Rushe and Jamie Wall reckon there's still a chance they survive. We also discuss the skorts issue that continues to rumble on inexplicably, John McGrath's late-career renaissance, Shane O'Donnell's return, and there's Limerick/Cork to look forward to this weekend too. We also reflect briefly on Louth's thrilling Leinster football final win, Sam Mulroy's heroics, and Murph getting abused by a celebrating Louth-man.
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The spectrum of football emotion runs wide. At one end, Trent Alexander-Arnold, once beloved and now accursed by his own people. At the other the Moose, surfing to his first LOI goal on a tidal wave of inexplicable love. Football can be a confusing place for footballers.We talk about another epic Clasico as Real Madrid fall apart in a comical first half in Montjuic. Have they grown desperate enough to submit to the kind of coach who will tell them how to play football?Dion Fanning and Rory Smith join us to talk about the weekend's football. Does the treatment of Trent reflect badly on Liverpool? And as Ruben Amorim aims another devastating broadside at his own club, how long do we think this project has left to run?
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Today we’re bringing you the first of our live chats from Belfast and it’s grandchildren to tell time moment, yeah? Last night friend of the show Andrew Trimble joined us at the beautiful Lyric Theatre to chat through Leinster’s lack of madness and Andy Farrell’s Lions squad with Eoin and our esteemed and informed rugby correspondent, Ken Burley. And this morning Eoin, Ken and Murph stood in the shadow of City Hall to dissect Ken’s experience at the Titanic museum, his second-favourite maritime vessel.
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