Tales From The East Stand
287 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 14 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPodcast by Gary Parsons & Karl Reilly
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
TFTES 287
June 20, 2024 22:05 - 2 hours - 142 MBThere's a horrendous Richmond repeat, Gary O'Neill begins his defence of his Questions From The East Stand trophy against Graham Burke, and Hannah Dunne interviews Athlone Town women's manager Ciarán Kilduff on memorable European nights with Rovers and Dundalk, as the Champions League draw sends us to Iceland again. Meanwhile, we go from Cologne to Frankfurt as Alan O'Neill, Eoghan Rice (Noel Campbell in the Bundesliga) and three Hoops Scene contributors, Ciarán Gentleman, Macdara Ferris and ...
TFTES 286
June 12, 2024 04:07 - 3 hours - 195 MBWe round up the last fortnight of news with two postponed games and two great goals in Drogheda, pit Aaron McEneff against Darragh Nugent in the quiz and look ahead to next week's Champions League draw with the help of Ryan McDyer. It's 36 years to the day of the win over England in Stuttgart, so a trio of Rovers fans, Mick Kearns, Jim Conroy and Phelim Warren provide a first hand account of Ireland's first ever tournament in Germany. There's interviews with former Hoops captain Paul Whelan, ...
TFTES 285
May 30, 2024 01:14 - 3 hours - 211 MBAn obscenely long show because of our ongoing German series, but with two weeks to digest it. This time we feature Bayern Munich, as Macdara Ferris reads his article on Rovers' Cup Winners' Cup tussle with Beckenbauer and co. in 1966, and John 'Dikie' Doyle, a club member of Bayern and a fan of the German national team since the 1970s, tells his story. All that plus Lee Grace and Trevor Clarke in the quiz qualifiers, and May's TFTES Hotline with a Tallaght, Germany, elections, ice-cream and h...
TFTES 284
May 22, 2024 22:28 - 2 hours - 164 MBWe have Dundalk and Derry recaps (the latter is much longer), and Aaron Greene vs Neil Farrugia in the quiz, before the second week of 'Tales From Deutschland'. There's another edition of the Members Corner with Sam, who for the past seven years has lived in Hamburg, our featured team. Con Murphy tells the story of Hamburg and West German legend Uwe Seeler coming out of retirement to score two goals for Cork Celtic against Shamrock Rovers in 1978. Seeler spent nearly all of his life in a town...
TFTES 283
May 16, 2024 00:06 - 2 hours - 126 MBWe talk the Pat's game, and Harry's quiz is back with Pico Lopes vs Sean Kavanagh before our German football series gets underway. Eoghan Rice has a piece on Rovers' win over Schalke in the 1969 Cup Winners' Cup, and there's the Members Corner with Mick Brazil, a Cork-based supporter who started following Rovers in the same year and was at that European first leg at a foggy Dalymount Park, and couldn't see a thing. Plus, looking ahead to Oriel Park tomorrow, Winston meets the founder of Irela...
TFTES 282
May 08, 2024 20:34 - 1 hour - 114 MBWe have the derby and Waterford recaps and a double author feature with a 1924 theme. In their books, David Needham (Ireland's First Real World Cup) and Athlone historian Tadhg Carey (When We Were Kings) tell the largely unknown story of Ireland's original Olympians, who travelled to Paris a hundred years ago this month.
TFTES 281
May 01, 2024 22:13 - 2 hours - 125 MBWe talk the ROADSTONE PROJECT with four league debuts in the Galway and Drogheda games and celebrate 30 years since the league title win at the RDS, interviewing assistant manager Tony Macken and and top goalscorer Stephen Geoghegan from that season.
TFTES 280
April 24, 2024 23:09 - 2 hours - 128 MBWe talk a brilliant win in Derry with Greener on the double again and Monday's scoreless draw at sandy Shels. The TFTES Hotline for April has topics ranging from late winners to true crime, from favourite biscuits to favourite captains, with one former Hoops skipper, John Toal among a dozen callers.
TFTES 279
April 17, 2024 02:16 - 2 hours - 121 MBWe talk Graham Burke's return to goalscoring ways on his 200th appearance for the club, and look ahead to the trip to the Ryan McBride Brandywell with the help of Derry author Kevin Harkin, who wrote "A Game of Two Halves". Harry is back for a new season of the quiz with goalkeepers Leon Pohls and Lee Steacy, plus there's an interview with former Clondalkin Direct Provision Centre Committee Chairman Brian Muchena.
TFTES 278
April 10, 2024 00:15 - 1 hour - 103 MBWe talk the Pat's game and lots of news around the league before an interview with Tallaght actor and Rovers supporter Stephen Jones about his career so far.
TFTES 277
April 03, 2024 22:11 - 1 hour - 121 MBWe talk the Hoops' Easter Rising with big wins over Bohs and Waterford last weekend, breaking the 10k mark at Tallaght and Robbie Gaffney's antics in Knocktopher. You'll also hear from Gary O'Neill (quiz draw), Dan Fulham (SRFC Ticketing App) and Hannah Dunne (on Inchicore icon Anne O'Brien) ahead of Friday's game with St Pat's.
TFTES 276
March 27, 2024 00:47 - 3 hours - 196 MBOur 1990s series gets underway with the first three seasons at the RDS. We relive the John McNamara era and the move back to the south side at Ballsbridge, huge crowds, horse injections, FAI Cup final heartbreak, the top six/bottom six and Rob Jones' debut with Justin Mason and Tommy Tormey, recorded at the Four Provinces.
TFTES 275
March 20, 2024 16:33 - 1 hour - 122 MBWe've got the big Galway review, with the inevitable win and craic, and 'Members Corner with the MacConvilles', as Eamonn and his dad Brian stop by the Lair to talk all things Rovers...and resurrect Conor's Corner while they're at it.
TFTES 274
March 13, 2024 00:37 - 3 hours - 206 MBAhead of Rovers' first trip to Galway in five years, there's interviews with Dublin-based Galwegian Julian Canny, and their captain Conor McCormack, a former Hoops midfielder, along with a Galway and German themed TFTES Hotline as 11 people, including SRFC TV commentators Con Murphy and Barry Murphy, call in to answer all our questions in under seven minutes somehow.
TFTES 273
March 08, 2024 03:54 - 2 hours - 153 MBWe talk the 2-2 draw with Derry on Monday night, Hannah Dunne interviews Rovers women's goalkeeper Amanda Budden and goalkeeping coach Karl Coleman, with their new season kicking off tomorrow, and there's a double author feature - David Proudlove concludes our Milltown series with his highly regarded book "When The Circus Leaves Town", about football clubs leaving their traditional homes, and, as we head to the Showgrounds on Saturday, the other one is Paul Little's "In the Shadow of Benbulbe...
TFTES 272
February 27, 2024 23:23 - 3 hours - 220 MBWe talk Tolka Park, last Friday and 37 years ago as it's part 2 of our 1980's special with Jason Maloney and Jim Conroy on KRAM, the boycotts and everything in between for those three years.
TFTES 271
February 20, 2024 22:56 - 3 hours - 178 MBWe have a story of two wing-backs against Dundalk last week, and, as we look ahead to Tolka Park, dubbed "The Stadium of the Future" in 1987, there's a quick look at the KRAM campaign by Con Murphy and an interview with former Rovers player and manager Dermot Keely, about the four-in-a-row team and the leaving of Rovers' old home at Milltown, which was fraught with controversy. The last 1 hour 50 minutes of the show is Dermot and our reaction.
TFTES 270
February 15, 2024 00:02 - 2 hours - 167 MBA bumper show for the new season and we have pure darts at the President's Cup final, Aaron Greene amongst the nine callers into a season predictions and 'love' themed TFTES Hotline, plus an interview with Newry-based documentary producer Ally McKenzie, who made 'Twice In A Lifetime', a short film on Rovers' four-in-a-row.
TFTES 269
February 08, 2024 03:23 - 2 hours - 159 MBWe've got #DartsGate and President's Cup coverage, and interviews with two former Hoops players. Sam Bone talks Maidstone's FAI Cup upset over Ipswich Town, and with Super Bowl LVII this Sunday, we hear Neil O'Donoghue's remarkable story: From Shamrock Rovers to the NFL.
TFTES 268
January 31, 2024 00:37 - 2 hours - 144 MBWe have a bit of chat about our theatre show behind the scenes, Pico and Thursday's quiz, before Rovers assistant manager Glenn Cronin drops by for a lengthy interview about his time at the club.
TFTES 267
January 10, 2024 03:31 - 2 hours - 154 MBWe ring in the new year with a theatre themed TFTES Hotline ahead of Saturday's live show, asking way too many questions of Bill Gleeson, John Coady, Colm Nolan, Denis Donohue, Donal Dunne, Fiachra Ó Brolacháin, Glenn & Hannah Dunne, Ryan McDyer, Karen Connolly and David King.
TFTES 266
December 20, 2023 21:38 - 2 hours - 145 MBIt's the TFTES Christmas show and last episode of the year as our guests Jason Maloney and Jim Conroy pick their most memorable games from the original four-in-a-row, in the first part of a 1980s special recorded at the Four Provinces.
TFTES 265
December 15, 2023 02:04 - 2 hours - 139 MBWe're back with some Christmas cheer and three interviews - two more authors in Ben Jackson and John O'Shea, who wrote 'The Africa Cup of Nations: The History of an Underappreciated Tournament' and 'Republic of Ireland Women: A Biography in 9 Lives' respectively, before Rovers fan Nico Crowley tells us about his life after winning the Tallaght Person of the Year award. We also reveal which guest players will be joining us on stage at our live podcast in the Civic Theatre. Get yizzer tickets.
TFTES 264
December 01, 2023 00:36 - 2 hours - 181 MBWe have a month's worth of news to catch up on, ranging from transfers and awards to the Prof's love life. There's details on our first ever live podcast on stage at the Civic Theatre in Tallaght on January 13th and the much anticipated quiz final between Gary O'Neill and Jack Byrne, hosted by Harry Moore in Malahide. Paul Weafer pops by to talk Focus Ireland's 12 Days of Christmas Voucher Appeal and our author series continues with 'League of Ireland: An illustrated History 1980-1990' by Bar...
TFTES 263
November 02, 2023 00:03 - 1 hour - 116 MBChampions. 4-in-a-row. History. We've got recaps from the St Pat's and Cork games and all the celebrations, before our interview with Estonian midfielder Markus Poom on his first season in Tallaght.
TFTES 262
October 24, 2023 23:42 - 1 hour - 101 MBNot one, not two but three quizzes this week as an exhibition match between Rovers women's players Lauren Kelly and Scarlett Herron is followed by the Questions From The East Stand semi-finals: Gary O'Neill vs Aaron Greene and Simon Power vs Jack Byrne. We review the 5-0 win over bogey club Drogheda as the Hoops are just one win away from the title at Richmond Park on Friday.
TFTES 261
October 11, 2023 23:52 - 1 hour - 99.5 MBWe've got a round up of all the news this past week with Toblerone Truffles and a record breaking Pico Lopes, before Collie O'Neill and Glenn Dunne share their thoughts on a big FAI Cup semi-final for the women's team in Tallaght this Saturday. Plus: Lee Grace vs Jack Byrne and Graham Burke vs Simon Power in the quiz quarter-finals.
TFTES 260
October 04, 2023 22:30 - 1 hour - 89.9 MB'Tiftees two sixty' offers no clarity on next year's budget but it does have a review of a big win over Shelbourne last Friday, more info on Steve Bruce's murder novels, a birra culture in the Sunday Times and the Civic Theatre in Tallaght and two quarter-final quizzes - Gary O'Neill vs Dylan Watts and Aaron Greene vs Markus Poom.
TFTES 259
September 28, 2023 00:09 - 1 hour - 102 MBWe try to make sense of a scoreless draw at UCD last Friday and there's nine brand new callers into an overseas fans edition of the TFTES Hotline, living all over the world - Scotland (Craig Sives), Germany, Finland, USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Vietnam.
TFTES 258
September 21, 2023 00:43 - 2 hours - 149 MBThere's a bus that just about made it to Derry last week, a quiz between Johnny Kenny and Dylan Watts, our author series with Irish historian John Dorney and another instalment of In Memoriam: My Dad, including UCD manager Andy Myler as Rovers head to campus on Friday.
TFTES 257
September 14, 2023 00:19 - 1 hour - 96.9 MBThe unofficial (?) Shamrock Rovers podcast finally returns to recap a great night against them lot and look ahead to the trip to Derry with the help of a native, Ciarán Roddy. Plus: Harry Moore has his yellow and red cards ready for Jack Byrne vs Rory Gaffney in the quiz.
TFTES 256
September 01, 2023 02:30 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBWe've got a recap of the Dundalk win, our first Friday night in Tallaght since June, and two brilliant quizzes: Simon Power vs Gideon Tetteh, and Dan Cleary vs Aaron Greene. We look ahead to the derby, and the women's game away to Cork, whose manager, former Hoops full-back Danny Murphy comes on for a chat about his career and the WNL.
TFTES 255
August 23, 2023 16:47 - 2 hours - 134 MBTales From The East Stand #255 No game to review and yet still a longer show than last week because the Members Corner returns with Giggsy Hand to talk club membership and his good friend Bobby Best, and our author series continues with Louth based journalist Barry Landy and his book 'Emerald Exiles', an analysis of Ireland's mark on world football and the individual stories behind it.
TFTES 254
August 18, 2023 00:35 - 1 hour - 101 MBThis week is all about photographer and Hoops fanatic Bobby Best who sadly passed away last weekend. There's an interview with Bobby, recorded for the documentary a couple of years ago that's never been aired before, our Tolka Park review and Graham Burke vs Sean Hoare in the quiz.
TFTES 253
August 09, 2023 23:30 - 2 hours - 132 MBWe talk the Ferencvaros and Cork games in Tallaght which ended the goal famine, and the TFTES Hotline returns for the first time in three months with 10-ish questions put to 10 supporters about Europe, superstitions, favourite podcast episodes, movies and TV.
TFTES 252
August 02, 2023 23:16 - 2 hours - 159 MBWe've only got a half hour on Budapest and all that. The remaining two hours? Five SRFC Ultras, from the older and newer generation from 2001 to present day come together to discuss The Origins of an Irish Ultra.
TFTES 251
July 26, 2023 00:35 - 2 hours - 128 MBWe talk Champions League and FAI Cup misery before the returning Kevin McCluskie helps preview the Ferencvaros tie, Lee Grace takes on Liam Burt in the quiz and there's a chat with Jess Hennessy and Justin Mason about Ireland in the World Cup and our Ringsend Rover, Abbie Larkin.
TFTES 250
July 14, 2023 00:59 - 4 hours - 281 MBGary is back from Turkey, along with Karl's Tallaght Time co-author Macdara Ferris in the Lair. We've broken the record for longest podcast ever but it's #TFTES250 so it's allowed. We talk about writing the book, published 10 years ago this week, there's our Worst XI's since 2009 and short, older interviews with Michael O'Neill (from BBC) and Ryan Thompson (Con Murphy for SRFC TV) on their time at Rovers. Pico Lopes takes on Markus Poom in the quiz, we painfully relive the Drogheda and Breida...
TFTES 249
July 05, 2023 22:56 - 2 hours - 142 MBWith Karl on his own again, there's an Icelandic theme to this week's show as he chats to Breidablik fan Hafstein Arnason, and there's a return to the podcast of two special guests, the goalkeeper who played in the 7-0 aggregate win over Fram Reykjavik in 1982, Alan O'Neill, and the man who scored Rovers' winning goal away to Stjarnan in 2017, Gary Shaw. Big Al remembers that week long stay in Iceland, alongside his friends Robbie Gaffney and Jacko McDonagh, and also discusses Gavin Bazunu an...
TFTES 248
June 29, 2023 01:25 - 3 hours - 238 MBDan Fulham steps in as guest co-host in Gar's absence for reaction to the Champions League draw. He talks the Bohs and Derry games, even though he was at Glastonbury for both, DJing with EMF, European travels and causing international incidents.
TFTES 247
June 18, 2023 21:16 - 2 hours - 142 MBNo international break for TFTES as we're back with John Byrne and Martin Moore in the Four Provinces for part 2 of That 70s Show, covering the emergence of disco, punk rock, Johnny Giles and Eamon Dunphy in the second half of the decade with the help of some more Con Murphy narration from 'Who Stole Our Game'. The lads ditch the flares and dodgy moustaches as they go from teenagers to young adults and witness Rovers' rock bottom of 63 paying customers at a home game in Milltown to three Cup ...
TFTES 246
June 15, 2023 00:14 - 2 hours - 176 MBCon Murphy joins us in the studio to talk the tonking over UCD and look ahead to Dalymount Park next week. We meet some Hoops n' Hammers in Gary Purdy and Martin Brennan after the Europa Conference League final triumph in Prague before Detective Con turns the microphone on Karl and Gary and gets a look behind the scenes of six years of TFTES, the origins of the podcast and its future.
TFTES 245
June 07, 2023 23:05 - 2 hours - 153 MBWe have a Bank Holiday six pointer over Dundalk and Sligo to talk about, and ahead of the UCD game before the mid-season break there's an interview with two ex-Hoops, Joe Hanrahan and Keith Dignam who played in the Students' 1984 FAI Cup final win over Rovers and were on opposing sides of the Manchester United friendly at Milltown in 1987, when Joe was in Alex Ferguson's squad.
TFTES 244
June 01, 2023 21:32 - 2 hours - 158 MBWe review a refereeing shambles in Cork, and, as we look ahead to the double header with Dundalk and Sligo, there's an interview with goalkeeper Richard Brush about his two spells with the Hoops, White Hart Lane, heavy metal and his Puma Kings. Pico Lopes conducts the draw for the last 16 of Questions From The East Stand, after Rory Gaffney, Johnny Kenny and Liam Burt attempt to qualify.
TFTES 243
May 23, 2023 20:43 - 2 hours - 154 MBThere's a surprise Drogheda defeat to dissect and a double feature in our author series, as Hannah Dunne meets Adrian Besley (The History of the Women's World Cup) and we interview former Cork referee Pat Kelly (It Happened By Chance) ahead of our first bus to Turner's Cross in four years.
TFTES 242
May 17, 2023 23:54 - 2 hours - 134 MBWe are top of the league after a routine win at UCD and a dramatic one against St Pat's. And the kids are alright. Panickers and politics, away trips and artificial intelligence are among the topics for our seven callers to the TFTES Hotline.
TFTES 241
May 10, 2023 21:10 - 2 hours - 163 MBWe've got another win over Bohs and all the fallout, the real and AI version, in glorious detail before we go back to college tomorrow. Our Player of the Year series returns with 2016 winner Simon Madden, who was with Boccer Bayly at Leeds, played in the first game at Tallaght Stadium and Bradser's first full season.
TFTES 240
May 05, 2023 00:12 - 2 hours - 144 MBWe have ugly and beautiful wins over Sligo and Derry from this past week to review, with a great bus trip up north, no smashed windows but one broken finger for Big Al, so we look ahead to Friday's derby with Leon The Professional in goal. Graham Burke and Markus Poom take on the quiz qualifiers.
TFTES 239
April 27, 2023 01:27 - 2 hours - 171 MBWe have a rasper, a rocket and a captain's triumphant return in Inchicore, Ed Saul previews the Robbie Keane Academy Cup and then Simon Power and Conan Noonan tackle the quiz. Finally, our second installment of In Memoriam: My Dad with sons of Jack Wilson (replay), Peter Murphy, Jimmy Cooke, Richard McGarry before Phyllis Sizmur, the daughter of club legend Bob Fullam, speaks to Robert Goggins in Slough near London a few weeks ago.
TFTES 238
April 19, 2023 23:18 - 2 hours - 139 MBAfter once again inspiring Rovers to come back from two goals down in Tallaght, Jack Byrne takes on Questions From The East Stand alongside Aaron Greene and Dan Cleary (recorded before the news). There's an interview with Ringsend historian Frank Hopkins to kick off our new author series, and, ahead the women's derby with Bohs on Saturday we hear from Hannah Dunne, Jaime Thompson and Paul Donohue on the story of the season so far.