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The Lions coverage has been accused of being a little over wrought at times, but McDevitt says the Gerard Butler/Sky guff is as integral to the whole experience as an O'Driscoll waltz or a Matt Dawson dummy. Yep, its officially Lions O'Clock.We chat to former Lion Shane Horgan, and Gerry Thornley of The Irish Times, about the sheer number of Irish on the tour and if that will be an issue, the master apprentice Joe V Andy dynamic, Finn Russell being coached by Johnny Sexton, the talent differential between the two squads, and how, as it gets closer to kick off, this looks like being a proper test series. Plus there's Stalin's songs, Donal's Doughnuts and Adam Lallana - a brilliant mind.
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Bohs are back in the title race after yet another win over Rovers. A dewy eyed Branno was on Duff's old grassy knoll in Dalyer last night.The outpouring of grief, love and scorn after Duff's departure continues to flood in. Ken reacts to the reaction to the reaction.Paul Flynn and Conor McManus join us on the line to talk Magical Bus Mystery Tours, David Clifford's summer, Dublin’s chances with or without King Con, Donegal’s short turn around, Monaghan the great entertainers and Galway Grit.Plus there's Ken's DAZN disaster, Club World Cup whingers and Eoin relives his goalkeeping heroics, again..
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Ken is back from holidays and so is Branno. Did they... go on vacation together?Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened... is what Branno's Shels-supporting friends are claiming they are thinking the day after Damien Duff walked out of the club. Today's show is mainly about perhaps the last-ever Duff-LOI Bomba - although it was a different competition that dominated much of our weekend bandwidth. Eoin brings us up to speed.David Sneyd joins Eoin, Ken and Branno to talk about Duff's exit. Why did he choose to go now? Is this an impulse decision, or one that's been coming for a while? Will the league be damaged by the loss of arguably its biggest star? And what next for Duff himself? Plus we've news of two new Stakeknife episodes, including a Q&A with Say Nothing author and New Yorker staff writer, Patrick Radden Keefe.
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14-man Dublin's win over Limerick on Saturday has been described as the greatest upset in championship history - is that hyperbolic or on the money? Is this the end of an era or can we expect to see a less dominant but still title-contending Limerick going forward? And what are Dublin capable of against Cork in two weeks' time? Jamie Wall and former Dublin hurler Liam Rushe are with us to answer those questions and more after an extraordinary weekend. It's probably for the best that Murph's away this week, because in the other preliminary quarter-final Galway rolled over against Tipperary, offering next to nothing. Now, Tipp take on Kilkenny in the semi-finals, with Jamie's prediction that Derek Lyng's men will go all the way this year still hanging in the balance. Plus there's the Chris Crummey debate ('debate') and the Second Captains slot Louth GAA never knew they needed.
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Today we're bringing you the final interview from our brilliant recent live shows, with a very old friend of the show, one of our great boxers and now one of the top coaches in the world: it's Andy Lee, live from the Lyric Theatre. Andy spoke to us about the controversial end to his boxer Paddy Donovan's recent barnburner with Lewis Crocker in Crocker's hometown of Belfast, the plans for the rematch, which now looks like it's going to be a world title fight, and memories of winning his own world title. And joining Eoin and Murph for Funny Friday is bolter and frequent office shadowboxer, Mark Horgan, who went to the fight with McDevitt, a fight where the atmosphere toed the line between electric and 'I think a riot is about to break out.' Mark also tells us about the brand new Stakeknife bonus episodes out today, including a Q&A with Say Nothing author and New Yorker staff writer, Patrick Radden Keefe. Plus there's Murphy Country Drivetime, and Second Captains dirty weekends.
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The Alonso era at Real Madrid began with a 1-1 draw with Al-Hilal at the Club World Cup. We chat to Dion Fanning and Rory Smith of The Observer about Madrid's new dawn and how they will fit the artist formerly known as Alexander-Arnold into the set up.We also discuss the killjoys at Spurs who got rid of the man who brought energy, an identity, and a trophy to the club, Big Ange!The Second Captains mailbag is bulging since our NFL in Ireland debate, and our new slot, "Lions Watch", has been a raging success as famous rugby players continue to roam the streets of Dublin.Plus there's sandwich wisdom, cuttin' turf and the transfer coup of the summer.
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The NFL is coming to Ireland, and 600,000 people queued for hours on a popular ticketing website yesterday to get their hands on some competitively-priced tickets to see the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Minnesota Vikings play each other in Croker this September. Murph can barely hide his anticipation, but not everyone is quite so excited. Gavin Cooney joins us in studio today to ask why the Irish government is so eager to hop into bed with a potent symbol of Trump's America. Plus there's Lions Watch, Finn Russell's gift, and Eoin's buyer's remorse.
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Leinster put in one of their best performances of the season, in the final, against a team they have struggled with in the past, and they celebrated with gusto.We chat to Shane Horgan about the display, Prendergast's performance, Clarkson's form, what it tells us about selections and mistakes made during the Northampton defeat, and what Nienaber's role is with the province beyond being a defence coach.We salute Sexton the polymath, Ireland’s ever-increasing Lions coaching ticket, and Murph blanches at the idea of paying €190 for the privilege of seeing Jack Van Poortvliet this Friday in the Aviva.
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Today's football show contains all the meats of the football stew, from local LOI beefs to the state of the world game.First we chat to David Sneyd about where exactly things stand in the League of Ireland season, a season in which Damien Duff and Stephen Bradley are at each other's throats. Why? Because of Italian trance classic, Komodo by Mauro Picotto, of course. Then we speak to The Guardian's Barney Ronay, who's been on the ground in America for the opening weekend of the Club World Cup. We discuss Infantino's ICE World Cup, the dark mood in America and why the Saudi money and American marketing behind it all means it will probably succeed.Plus there's Auckland amateurs, birthday shout-outs and the Kalimotxo King.
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Another insane weekend of Gaelic football, and finally we have some teams departing the scene - including, most chaotically of all, Mayo. They conceded a last-second score to a team who needed it not even a small little bit, and they, Derry, Roscommon and Clare are gone. Former Galway player Barry Cullinane is on the line to chart his old team's progress through the Group of Death, and he's joined by Wicklow manager Oisin McConville, fresh from beating Westmeath and blasting the Tailteann Cup wide open. There's also time to discuss Meath's insane hammering of Kerry, a score-fest between Down and Monaghan, and the preliminary quarter-final draw, which managed to keep all the big dogs away from each other.
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There is something inspirational about the way Trent Alexander Arnold manages to annoy Liverpool fans a little more with each successive step in his transfer to Real Madrid. Today he wowed the luminaries of Real Madrid by delivering a speech in Spanish so mellifluous that is is clear he has been steeping himself in the language of Cervantes for some time. Como se dice 'betrayed' en Español? Meanwhile Thomas Tuchel is fluent in several European languages and can be relied upon to blab indiscreetly in all of them. We try to understand how the England manager came to reveal his mother's explosive opinions on Jude Bellingham. Tim Vickery joins us to talk about the Club World Cup, which kicks off on Saturday night. His home city of Rio is sending three teams, the most of any city in the world - but are any of the four Brazilian representatives any good? And how does the FIFA of Johnny Infantino look from the perspective of South America?
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Leinster have won the Pro 12/14/Celtic League a record eight times but in this year's final they face the most successful South African franchise in Super Rugby and the team that's given them more trouble than any other in the URC, the Bulls of Pretoria.We chat to Chris Jones of The BBC and Gerry Thornley of The Irish Times about Leinster's Northampton hangover, the pressure on Nienaber and Leo Cullen to get it right this time, the hatred factor, Prendergast's worrying form, Willie Le Roux's non-contact rugby and why Leinster struggle to motivate themselves for the URC.Plus there's Jake White's sting, Freed From Desire and Permutations Man on the clock.
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The season is over, the season is about to begin, the transfer window is closed, the transfer window is about to open again.We talk about some of the major transfers of the mini-window before Dion Fanning and David Sneyd join us to talk about the international football. Are Ireland games really not worth panel analysis any more? What does our own panel have to say about last night's game? We also discuss Evan Ferguson's sliding doors moments over the last few months, and also talk a bit about England's defeat at the hands of Senegal who, let's not forget, could not do better than a draw in Dublin.
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Last week Ken asked "What Is A Midfielder?" which has resulted in a bulging Second Captains mailbag. Ken also reads from one of the Roy Keane auto-biographies, and a correction is issued on a claim made in yesterday’s pod regarding a historical presenter falling out.Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner produced one of the sporting moments of 2025 and one of the greatest tennis matches of all time in their French Open final on Sunday. We ask Caitlin Thompson of Racquet Magazine about the comeback, the quality, the rivalry and where this is heading for the next decade or so.And we look at the timing and length of Sinner's ban, French fans, and Coco Gauff's moral certitude.
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The Nations League final four turned out to be pretty good but it's clear that what international football needs right now is to reverse the FIFA diktat to make every emotional stadium moment sound the exact same.We talk about Ireland's draw with Senegal and look ahead to tomorrow's season-closing friendly in Luxembourg, before the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author Joseph O'Neill joins us in studio to speak about his 2024 novel, Godwin, a New York Times Best Book of the Year. The novel, partly set in the world of football scouting and agency, explores both the exploitation of young African footballers and a particular brand of ineffective 21st century American liberalism, something Joseph has also written about in his essays for the New York Review of Books. And that is what you call a veritable smorgasbord of a football show.
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Cork won a Munster final that "began at tea-time and didn't finish until bed-time", as Denis Walsh put it on Saturday night - a win on penalties over Limerick after a raucous, controversial, enthralling match that was perfect in its imperfection, as Jamie Wall explains to us. Kilkenny won a sixth Leinster title in a row, but the real headlines from Croke Park yesterday came from Kildare, who won the Joe McDonagh Cup with a bravura performance on their biggest day. We also discuss Murph's insatiable desire for TV appearances, Ken's hatred for "Freed From Desire", and a new documentary "Hell For Leather", coming up on RTE1 tonight.
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When we gazed into our crystal ball ahead of our live show in the Everyman Theatre in Cork, we presumed we’d be looking ahead to a Munster hurling final coronation for Cork’s all-conquering heroes.But by the time we spoke to Jamie Wall, and the manager and star of their last All-Ireland winning team in 2005, John Allen and Diarmuid “The Rock” O’Sullivan, they had been cowed by Cork’s 16-point defenestration at the hands of Limerick, their opponents again tomorrow.Can Cork turn that deficit around? Does it even matter? Why can’t Cork just “get confident, stupid”?Plus there's Cork-Kerry spot the difference, a great email from Earl the GAA loving American, Michael Murphy's sports empire and Frances' tv guide.
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As the European club season winds down into a last international break, Ken returns to one of his obsessions: the failure of English football culture to grasp that midfielders do not need to score a lot of goals to be classed as TOP. We also discuss the Premier League's 'failure' - or you could also call it 'decision not to' - close the PSR loophole that has left the world's top-spending club, Chelsea, in such a losses-tolerant position ahead of the Club World Cup that kicks off in a few days. Gavin Cooney joins us to talk about tomorrow's Ireland v Senegal friendly. Is John (Joe) Patrick (Finn) likely to get a run out? Where is Evan Ferguson at? And nearly a year into Heimir Hallgrimsson's tenure, what can we say about the developing identity and principles of the team?
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The All-Ireland senior football championship only "really" begins next week, we've been told, but some big names could already be saying goodbye. How likely is it that the group stages will see Galway, Mayo, Dublin or Donegal knocked out - Paul Flynn and Conor McManus are predicting some big fallers. After 18 wides in Croke Park, what's going on with the Dubs - Ken has some thoughts. The GAA locking the doors of its biggest stadium gets a mention, but why is Jim Gavin pulling up the ladder behind him? We discuss Carla Ward's image of "Irish football", the many lessons we could pass on to this year's Leaving Cert students... and why Ken is fundamentally disillusioned with his life.
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The (Durban) Sharks scrumhalf Jaden Hendrikse gained instant infamy in his side's epic penalty shootout win over Munster with his trash talk, theatric flop, and smug wink to an irate Jack Crowley. We discuss values and rugby's brave new generation of heels.Former Munster and Ireland centre Barry Murphy tells us about his emotional post match and cold light of day reactions (they're identical) to the Sharks' shithousery, Crowley's chutzpah, Munster's defiant display in normal and extra time, the departures of Peter O'Mahony and Conor Murray and if the defeat to Northampton broke something in Leinster.We cover the latest PL tittle-tattle with the littlest hobo, who is back from Munich.Plus there's the Flying Scotsman, Linkin Parked and a revenge mission in Pairc Ui Chaoimh.
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