Latest Airtricity Podcast Episodes
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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.
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Tales From The East Stand - February 08, 2023 23:46 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe have a cappuccino and a Leinster Senior Cup report from Belfield, and ahead of the President's Cup in Derry, there's an interview with Rovers wing-back Neil Farrugia, who talks his career so far (and more importantly, Matt Damon movies), while Head of Women's Football Jason Carey chats to TFTE...
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Tales From The East Stand - January 26, 2023 22:39 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe have all yizzer news, the return of 'Questions From The East Stand' with Gary O'Neill, Neil Farrugia and Sean Gannon, and a near hour long interview with Darren Dillon, who was strength and conditioning coach for 5 years under Stephen Bradley.
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Tales From The East Stand - January 12, 2023 21:58 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLast month it was Pico Lopes and Robbie Horgan...this time Boccer Bayly, Dave McAllister and Hooperman are among over a dozen diallers into the TFTES Hotline with topics such as World Cup pundits, cooking, pre-season friendlies, bad refereeing decisions, iconic celebrations and how LOI managers w...
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Tales From The East Stand - December 23, 2022 00:13 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's our last show of the year with lots of news, World Cup chat, the return of Conor's Corner and an interview with former striker Noel Hunt about his career, including the 2001-2003 spell with Rovers.
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Tales From The East Stand - December 05, 2022 00:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe have a round-up of all of the off-season news and a number of surprise guests on our winter edition of the TFTES Hotline.
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Tales From The East Stand - November 17, 2022 17:15 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's our belated end of season wrap up show with thoughts on the Djurgardens and UCD away games and a brilliant TFTES Player of the Year awards night in Liffey Valley. There's also an interview with Ray Kenny, the fireman and 2006 First Division winner for Rovers.
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Tales From The East Stand - November 02, 2022 00:14 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe've got the Gent and Derry games and all the memorable trophy celebrations afterwards. With our last group game away to Djurgardens on Thursday, there's an interview with Swedish goalkeeper Oscar Jansson about his spell with Rovers in 2012.
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Tales From The East Stand - October 26, 2022 21:47 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe talk the Pat's game and the days that followed that saw the club seal a 20th league title. And back again on TFTES, our other two stars, it's Con Murphy and Graham Gartland Part III. Con and Garts talk all things Rovers from the past week and look ahead to hosting the Player of the Year awards...
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Tales From The East Stand - October 19, 2022 21:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsProf battles Covid coughing over Zoom to give our take on the Molde and Drogheda games and there's a photography edition of the TFTES Hotline with a starting XI of Rovers photographers sharing their favourite photos over the years. Macdara Ferris, David Hoare, Paul Weafer, Mark McDermott, Andrew ...
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Tales From The East Stand - October 13, 2022 00:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBetter late than never. We've got thoughts on Molde and Shelbourne, with an epic comeback win in Tallaght, and TFTES In Memoriam: Tony Eustace.
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Tales From The East Stand - October 05, 2022 23:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe have an outstanding performance in Sligo to discuss and two interviews ahead of today's European game in Molde, with Stig Berlid, the creator of 'Moldepodd', and Gary Hogan, an Irish former goalkeeper who has been playing and coaching in the Norwegian lower leagues for nearly 15 years. Come fo...
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Tales From The East Stand - September 28, 2022 22:35 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOnly one goal to talk about in our Shelbourne and UCD reviews. We interview former Hoops player James Keddy, and Rovers fan Anto Wilkes, who travelled to Mexico for the 1986 World Cup and ended up staying there.
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Tales From The East Stand - September 22, 2022 00:31 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe talk all about our journey to Ghent in Belgium and another defeat in Derry which saw the Hoops go out of the FAI Cup. With it being an international week, former Rovers full-back John Keogh shares the remarkable story of his one and only Ireland cap against West Germany in 1966. The last hour ...
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Tales From The East Stand - September 14, 2022 00:10 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere's our Yoo Gordon and Finn Harps reviews and a Belgian theme to the show, with journalist Alexandre Braeckman and then former Ireland international striker Dominic Foley, who enjoyed seven years with KAA Gent and Circle Brugge.
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Tales From The East Stand - September 07, 2022 01:58 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe talk a dire derby and preview our group stage opener with Djurgardens with the help of Philip O'Connor in Stockholm and a new edition of the TFTES Hotline, about European travels, regrets, Hoops Scene, volunteering and BEES.
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Tales From The East Stand - September 01, 2022 01:04 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere's the wins over Ferencvaros and Drogheda and the Conference group draw to discuss. Winston Meets Terry Eviston, a hero of our 1994 title winning team to talk his career with Rovers, Bohs and Dundalk.
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Tales From The East Stand - August 23, 2022 23:32 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe have a difficult night in Budapest Thursday and a very enjoyable night in Tallaght Sunday to review, and two special guests in studio to help us do it - Chef Ray Whelan and Ray Whelan Senior. The Rovers cooks give us a peek inside the dressing room and talk their famous curry, fussy eaters, Sh...
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Tales From The East Stand - August 16, 2022 22:42 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNo goals to talk about this week with our Derry report, an interview with Kevin McCluskie from Budapest ahead of Thursday's tie with Ferencvaros, and Part 2 of the TFTES Hotline Overseas Supporters Edition, from USA, Mexico and Australia: featuring Eamonn McConville, Paddy Flannelly, Yailenne Lla...
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Tales From The East Stand - August 11, 2022 23:05 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA bumper show to celebrate group stage football with an epic 97th minute goal from Gary O'Neill in Tallaght and almost an aggregate tonking after success in Skopje. We also have Part 1 of our TFTES Hotline Overseas Special where you'll hear from Hoopers living in England, Europe and Canada - John...
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Tales From The East Stand - August 02, 2022 20:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere's an FAI Cup TONKING to discuss, Angel Kostoski joins us from Skopje ahead of Thursday's big Europa League game and we interview Tommy Stewart, who famously scored Rovers' winner in Israel in 2010.
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Tales From The East Stand - July 29, 2022 01:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe're back with the biggest news stories of the past couple of weeks - the TFTES 5-a-side draw, Prof's Golden Goal and Chris McCann's birthday. We also have reports on Drogheda and Ludogorets (x2), #Hoopermandela and a look ahead to tonight's FAI Cup tie against Bangor Celtic with Eddie Kearney a...
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Tales From The East Stand - July 17, 2022 10:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTFTES On Tour~! You'll be regaled with tales from St Julian's in Malta, where everything except the game was entertaining, and hear from eight Hoopers who made the trip in a new edition of the TFTES Hotline. Plus: Metodi Shumanov fills us in on Tuesday's Bulgarian opponents, the nouveau riche Lud...
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Tales From The East Stand - July 08, 2022 00:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's the Rory Gaffney show with two goals and two assists in Ballybofey and another great European night in Tallaght. Stadium manager Nicola Coffey has all the info you need on the construction of the new north stand, and Shaun McCarthy, a Hoop living in Malta for over 20 years, tells his story a...
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Tales From The East Stand - July 01, 2022 00:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGar is back to celebrate his own 200th episode in a show almost as long as your drive to Ballybofey this evening. There's the wins over Bohs and Pat's to dissect and a look ahead to the Hibernians tie next week, with former Rovers and Maltese international Luke Dimech before journalist Gianluca L...
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Tales From The East Stand - June 23, 2022 22:31 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTFTES heads out to CityWest as 'Ooh Ah' Paul McGrath (not that one) fills in for Gary this week. We talk a poor performance in Dundalk, Paulie's lockdown wedding, his European away curse and his starting XI vs Bohs (after a few edits). There's an hour long interview with former Hoops left-back Ri...
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Tales From The East Stand - June 16, 2022 02:20 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe have a Champions League trip to Malta to plan and a Father's Day edition of the TFTES Hotline which sees eight Rovers Dads and their sons and daughters call in together.
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Tales From The East Stand - June 10, 2022 00:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMid-season break shmid-season break. We squeeze out every last drop of news, there's a European draw preview with Pico Lopes and Dave Downey before the last hour, In Memoriam: Declan Keogh AKA Big Dec, a larger than life Rovers fan who was loved by so many around the league.
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Tales From The East Stand - June 02, 2022 00:06 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere's reaction from our 200th episode in Ringsend before the three games we have to catch up on, from the hill in UCD, to a shock defeat in Drogheda and then back to winning ways against Duffer and Joey's Shels. The last hour is an interview with members of the SRFC Media Team and some of the p...