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  • Could you get in trouble for using a dodgy box?
    An estimated one in five Irish households access live sport using a dodgy box - on this week’s show, Sinéad and Gavin explain the crackdown on their use, and the potential punishments for any user caught with a dodgy box. They discuss the appetite among Gardaí for this crackdown, and how some broadcasters are seeking to take things into their own hands.They also debate the moral question - why do so many people feel it is not wrong to use a dodgy box? Has it become unreasonably expensive to pay for sport legitimately? And can dodgy boxes ever really be fully stamped out?Get in touch - [email protected] and [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Arise Sir Becks: What David Beckham tells us about modern football and celebrity
    David Beckham has completed a career ambition with the bestowing of a knighthood by King Charles.On this week’s podcast, Gavin and Sinéad discuss why Beckham wanted a knighthood so badly, and detail his 20-year campaign for the honour. They look back at his career, assess his legacy, and consider the controversies. Do we underrate him as a player? Why did the English media establishment get Beckham so wrong for so long? Would sport and celebrity culture so enmeshed today had it not been for the trailblazing figure of Beckham? And what next for Beckham and his family? Have they become an ersatz royal family for the benefit of America?Get in touch - [email protected] and [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • How the GAA allowed hurling become a minority sport
    Sinead spent the weekend at Croke Park, watching her beloved Kildare hurlers complete a stunning rise to win the Joe McDonagh Cup, and earn promotion to compete among Leinster's elite in the Liam McCarthy Cup next year. On this week's pod, we discuss how Kildare completed their rise, and then discuss the GAA's biggest single failing of their history: the failure to grow hurling across the country. We discuss why hurling is a minority sport, look at its biggest single impediment - Gaelic football - and explain what the GAA have got wrong, and what they are now trying to do to make it right. Get in touch - email [email protected] and [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • The highlights and the weirder parts of this summer’s biggest sports events
    On this week’s episode, Sinéad and Gavin look ahead to the biggest events of the summer, previewing storylines and the likely winners and losers. What the hell is Fifa’s Club World Cup, and why is Gianni Infantino a collectible in the official sticker album? Can Rhasidat Adeleke or anyone else on Team Ireland win a global medal at the world athletics championships? Why do we all get so inexplicably caught up in the British and Irish Lions? Can Ireland actually win a quarter-final, this time, at the women’s Rugby World Cup? And what kind of absurdity will break out at the Ryder Cup?Get in touch: email [email protected] and [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • How I came to play and love team sports at the age of 51
    Imagine first experiencing the thrill of scoring a goal or kicking a point at the age of 51. That's the unlikely and thrilling turn life took this year for Laura Byrne, The Journal's Opinions Editor. This week Laura tells Sinead O'Carroll about her upbringing on the side of a GAA field in 1980s Wicklow. Football was hugely important in family life, but it just wasn't something girls played in her experience. As a result, an antipathy to Gaelic games developed - until Laura had kids of her own and they began to play hurling and football. Then, in recent times, Laura was talked into giving the 'Mothers and Others' programme a go at her local club. After years of being on the outside looking in, Laura is now an enthusiastic participant, chasing the thrill of the next score, while remembering not to apologise to opponents for tackling them. Her sporting story is poignant and uplifting and underscores the truth that it is never too late to lace up the boots and savour the joy of being part of a team.Get in touch: [email protected] and [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sport meets news, current affairs, society and pop culture as Gavin Cooney and Sinéad O'Carroll zoom out on the biggest story of the week to explore the wider context and issues at play. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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