Latest Airtricity Podcast Episodes
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Tales From The East Stand - June 23, 2024 22:13 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTommy Tormey and Justin Mason are back in the Four Provinces to take us through the 1993/94 title winning season under Ray Treacy, Rovers' only major trophy in the 22 years between Milltown and Tallaght, and 1994/95 with the fallout of the departures of Geoghegan, Byrne and Eccles.
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Tales From The East Stand - June 20, 2024 22:05 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere'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 ...
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Tales From The East Stand - June 12, 2024 04:07 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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...
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Tales From The East Stand - May 30, 2024 01:14 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAn 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 t...
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Tales From The East Stand - May 22, 2024 22:28 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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...
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Tales From The East Stand - May 16, 2024 00:06 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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 ...
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Tales From The East Stand - May 08, 2024 20:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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 hund...
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Tales From The East Stand - May 01, 2024 22:13 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - April 24, 2024 23:09 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - April 17, 2024 02:16 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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 an...
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Tales From The East Stand - April 10, 2024 00:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - April 03, 2024 22:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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) ahea...
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Tales From The East Stand - March 27, 2024 00:47 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOur 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, reco...
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Tales From The East Stand - March 20, 2024 16:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe'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.
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Tales From The East Stand - March 13, 2024 00:37 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAhead 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 Mur...
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Tales From The East Stand - March 08, 2024 03:54 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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 rega...
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Tales From The East Stand - February 27, 2024 23:23 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - February 20, 2024 22:56 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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 a...
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Tales From The East Stand - February 15, 2024 00:02 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA 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 fil...
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Tales From The East Stand - February 08, 2024 03:23 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe'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.
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Tales From The East Stand - January 31, 2024 00:37 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - January 10, 2024 03:31 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - December 20, 2023 21:38 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt'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.
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Tales From The East Stand - December 15, 2023 02:04 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe'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 te...
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Tales From The East Stand - December 01, 2023 00:36 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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 Ha...
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Tales From The East Stand - November 02, 2023 00:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsChampions. 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - October 24, 2023 23:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNot 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 Drogh...
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Tales From The East Stand - October 11, 2023 23:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe'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 Si...
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Tales From The East Stand - October 04, 2023 22:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings'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 Wat...
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Tales From The East Stand - September 28, 2023 00:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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.