This is your LOIfe

DEREK Pender is synonymous with Bohs following an eight year stint in Dalymount Park.

He’d been around the block before that, and played for the rest of Dublin’s big 4 before settling down just up the road from where he grew up.

The full back opens up about his difficulties growing up surrounded by addiction in Dublin’s north inner city, and how football and his other work in banking offered him an escape route.

He discusses the day he infuriated Ireland hero Niall Quinn, almost smashing a manager’s car in a fury, why he regrets threatening to go on strike at St. Pat’s, and the decision to take the Bohs job the weekend his mum died.

Episode 2 of This Is Your LOIfe season 2 also hears why “Detzer” had no football memorabilia to bring with him to Irish Sun studios!
This is a podcast chatting to the legends of the League of Ireland- the good, the bad and the glory days.
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PAT Flynn was a key part of the Shamrock Rovers squad that brought glory back to Ireland's most successful club under Michael O'Neill.

Known for liking a tackle, Pajo was sent off 13 times during the course of his career - we think.

The man who wound up Cristiano Ronaldo talks winding up Gazza, trying to keep out Del Piero and how his uncle secured him a deal with an English club by lying through his teeth.

Episode 1 in season 2 of This Is Your LOIfe hears why a red card - believe it or not - sealed his big move to his beloved Hoops.

This is a podcast chatting to the legends of the League of Ireland- the good, the bad and the glory days.
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In 1970s Ireland, the nation's youth were craving an escape - and music was going to provide it.
Over the course of the next few decades, what had been a gigging backwater was transformed into the centre of the live entertainment universe.
Fields of Dreams tells the story of that remarkable change through the trailblazers who made it happen.

Narrated by singer songwriter Róisín O, this 10-part series chronicles the rise of the festival and the extraordinary local scene that saw many Irish acts touch greatness.
With stories equally hilarious and infuriating, it's a portrait of success and failure and everything in between.

Episodes released weekly every week. Subscribe now at Fields of Dreams.

From the producers of the Stardust Tragedy, the Kinahans, This Is Your LOIfe and This Is Robert.

This is a podcast chatting to the legends of the League of Ireland- the good, the bad and the glory days.
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Robert Delany was 27 when in 2008 he was shot in the head on the orders of a brutal dissident Republican.

The innocent dad’s “crime” was to break up a pub fight involving the wrong man.

Shot in front of his young daughter in their Dublin home, Bob suffered catastrophic brain damage.

For 17 years he has been neither living nor dead.

But his family is refusing to give up hope that the man who orchestrated the attack will be caught.

This is Robert is an Irish Sun podcast narrated by Damien Lane, brought to you by the producers of the Kinahans and the Stardust Tragedy.
This is his story.
This is a podcast chatting to the legends of the League of Ireland- the good, the bad and the glory days.
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Sligo Rovers royalty Dykes was a phenomenal leader for his hometown club, and later Derry City and Finn Harps.

Never to be messed with, the defender discusses booting England hero Gary Lineker all over the Showgrounds after taking exception to a comment he made about the grass.

He explains why he made his Sligo debut after a few pints in the pub, discusses the magic behind a most-unexpected Treble and a managerial and coaching career that later saw him manage Derry City in a do or die relegation battle with Harps.

This is your LOIfe is brought to you by The Irish Sun.

The series is produced by APodcastGeek.

It was written by and executively produced by Neil Cotter and Nicola Bardon.

With thanks to An Chroí Digital Hub in Sligo for the studio.

This is a podcast chatting to the legends of the League of Ireland- the good, the bad and the glory days.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.