Latest Airtricity Podcast Episodes
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Tales From The East Stand - September 21, 2023 00:43 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere'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.
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Tales From The East Stand - September 14, 2023 00:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - September 01, 2023 02:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe'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 ...
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Tales From The East Stand - August 23, 2023 16:47 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTales 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 Ex...
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Tales From The East Stand - August 18, 2023 00:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - August 09, 2023 23:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - August 02, 2023 23:16 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe'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.
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Tales From The East Stand - July 26, 2023 00:35 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - July 14, 2023 00:59 - 4 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGary 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...
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Tales From The East Stand - July 05, 2023 22:56 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWith 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 score...
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Tales From The East Stand - June 29, 2023 01:25 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDan 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - June 18, 2023 21:16 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNo 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 S...
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Tales From The East Stand - June 15, 2023 00:14 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCon 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 ...
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Tales From The East Stand - June 07, 2023 23:05 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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 Man...
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Tales From The East Stand - June 01, 2023 21:32 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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 Ques...
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Tales From The East Stand - May 23, 2023 20:43 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere'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.
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Tales From The East Stand - May 17, 2023 23:54 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - May 10, 2023 21:10 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe'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...
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Tales From The East Stand - May 05, 2023 00:12 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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.
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Tales From The East Stand - April 27, 2023 01:27 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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, Rich...
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Tales From The East Stand - April 19, 2023 23:18 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAfter 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, ah...
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Tales From The East Stand - April 12, 2023 22:20 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere's Part 2 of our supporter's teams TFTES Hotline featuring Robbie Murphy (replay), Mick Kearns and Ben Stafford from the 80s side and David Linehan, Barry Adams and Brian McKenna from the early 00s, with stories and opinions on All-Ireland Leagues and the new stand at Dalymount Park, from wh...
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Tales From The East Stand - April 05, 2023 21:36 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAnother obscenely long show but there was an international break catch-up, our 70s Show reaction and finally a win to talk about, and an emphatic one at that at Oriel Park. Lee Grace, Dylan Watts and Darragh Nugent tackle our quiz qualifying round at Roadstone and from the 2 hour mark, there's a ...
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Tales From The East Stand - March 27, 2023 23:03 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's 'That 70's Show' with John Byrne and Martin Moore, who were just impressionable teenagers in a grim era of League of Ireland football as the crowds seemed to disappear overnight. Part 1, recorded at the Four Provinces Pub in Kimmage/Crumlin, takes us from the end of the six-in-a-row in 1970 ...
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Tales From The East Stand - March 22, 2023 22:32 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe have yet another draw against St Pat's to talk about and the debut of 'In Memoriam: My Dad' as six sons pay tribute to their late, Rovers supporting fathers Mícheál Ó Brolcháin AKA Rennie, Brian Murphy, Charlie Maloney, Jim Conroy Snr, James Palmer and Jim McGlone.
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Tales From The East Stand - March 15, 2023 22:10 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAside from a scoreless draw in Tolka Park, we have 6 goals from the Rovers women's team and an interview with captain Aine O'Gorman, plus Justin Mason remembers the Leinster Senior Cup final against Bohs on Paddy's Day 30 years ago.
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Tales From The East Stand - March 09, 2023 02:59 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe talk the Burke family, 8-goal thrillers and Con Murphy's dreams with another all-female TFTES Hotline starring Sarah Whelehan, Amy Woods, Laura Glackin, Paula Kearns, Ellen Kearns and Emma Wheatley.
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Tales From The East Stand - March 01, 2023 22:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHear all about our trip to Drogheda on the WAC Express, with more red cards, a history of Shamrock Rovers Ladies FC since 1996 by Hannah Dunne, Robert Goggins and Declan Hughes, plus there's an interview with former Rovers and Cork winger Billy Woods ahead of the big Tallaght double header.
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Tales From The East Stand - February 23, 2023 03:17 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere's Saturday's league opener in Sligo to review, Ronan Finn vs Leon Pohls vs Sean Hoare in the quiz and the "Members Only Corner" as Winston Meets The Gaffneys - the return of 70s player Robbie to the podcast along with his son Jason.
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Tales From The East Stand - February 16, 2023 00:13 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe talk the President's Cup defeat in Derry, there's another quiz game between Pico Lopes, Sean Kavanagh and Gideon Tetteh and February's TFTES Hotline: Season Predictions and Valentines Day edition.